GA / DPRK

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the United Nations General Assembly today (23 Sep) that the US President Donald Trump has “committed an irreversible mistake” when he called the DPRK leader Kim Yong-un a “rocket man” and by doing so he made “our rockets' visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:31
• Production Date: 23 September 2017
• Asset Language: Original
• Personal Subject: DONALD J. TRUMP
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: GENERAL DEBATE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• Geographic Subject: KOREAN PENINSULA
• MAMS Id: 1978394
• Parent Id: 1978394
• Alternate Title: unifeed170923e

Description

STORY: GA / DPRK
TRT: 3:31
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: KOREAN /NATS

DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, UN Headquarters
2. Pan right, Ri walking to podium
3. Wide shot, GA Hall
4. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Yong Ho, Minister of Foreign Affairs, DPRK:
“Due to his lacking of basic common knowledge and proper sentiment, he tried to insult the supreme dignity of my country by referring it to a rocket. By doing so, however, he committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets' visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more. None other than Trump himself is on a suicide mission. In case innocent lives of the U.S. are lost because of this suicide attack, Trump will be held totally responsible.”
5. Med shot, US delegation
6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Yong Ho, Minister of Foreign Affairs, DPRK:
“Trump might not have been aware what is uttered from his mouth but we will make sure that he bears consequences far beyond his words, far beyond the scope of what he can handle even if he is ready to do so.”
7. Wide shot, Ri at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Yong Ho, Minister of Foreign Affairs, DPRK:
“What else could be a bigger threat than the violent remarks such as pouring "fire and fury", "total destruction" coming from the top authority of the world's biggest nuclear power? The very reason the DPRK had to possess nuclear weapons is because of the U.S. and it had to strengthen and develop its nuclear force onto the current level to cope with the U.S.
9. Med shot, US delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Yong Ho, Minister of Foreign Affairs, DPRK:
“We do not need anyone's recognition of our status as a nuclear weapon state and our capability of nuclear strike. The ICBM marked with sacred name of the DPRK flew over the universe above the endless blue sky, the warhead of our rocket left its trace on the blue waves of the Pacific Ocean and the tremendous explosion and vibration of the hydrogen bomb were recorded by this planet. Although our decision to possess nuclear weapons was an inevitable option forced by the United States, it resulted in our country achieving the status of a nuclear weapon state and a rocket power, and this prestige has now become an immortal destiny of the DPRK.”
11. Wide shot, GA Hall
12. Med shot, DPRK delegation
13. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Ri Yong Ho, Minister of Foreign Affairs, DPRK:
“The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a responsible nuclear weapon state. We will take preventive measures by merciless preemptive action in case the U.S. and its vassal forces show any sign of conducting a kind of "decapitating" operation on our headquarters or military attack against our country. However, we do not have any intention at all to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against the countries that do not join in the U.S. military actions against the DPRK.”
14. Wide shot, Ri at the podium

Storyline

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the United Nations General Assembly today (23 Sep) that the US President Donald Trump has “committed an irreversible mistake” when he called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea's (DPRK) leader Kim Yong-un a “rocket man” and by doing so he made “our rockets' visit to the entire U.S. mainland inevitable all the more.”

Ri also said “in case innocent lives of the U.S. are lost because of this suicide attack, Trump will be held totally responsible.”

In his speech from the same podium four days earlier, the US President Donald Trump called the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “a rocketman” and threatened “to totally destroy North Korea” in case the US is “forced to defend itself.”

North Korean Foreign Minister also said “Trump might not have been aware what is uttered from his mouth but we will make sure that he bears consequences far beyond his words” and blamed the US for the nuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

Ri said that “very reason the DPRK had to possess nuclear weapons is because of the U.S. and it had to strengthen and develop its nuclear force onto the current level to cope with the U.S.”

Foreign Minister also warned that the DPRK “will take preventive measures by merciless preemptive action in case the U.S. and its vassal forces show any sign of conducting a kind of "decapitating" operation on our headquarters or military attack against our country.”

Numerous world leaders including the French President Macron and South Korean President Moon have used the podium of the UN General Assembly during the general debate held over the past week, to call for cooler heads amid escalating rhetoric coming from both Washington and Pyongyang.