NKorea Calls Trump a 'War Merchant' in Advance of US-SKorea Military Exercises

North Korea reportedly labeled President Donald Trump a "war merchant and strangler of peace" — and charged the U.S. sale of weapons to South Korea and Japan is creating “a hair trigger situation.”

CNN reported Sunday the rebuke came in a commentary from state newspaper Rodong Sinmun posted by the Korean Central News Agency.

"Trump called for total destruction of our state and people at the UN arena, and continues to bring nuclear strategic assets into South Korea and its vicinity, pushing the situation on the peninsula to the brink of war," the commentary said, CNN reported.

It added that selling weapons to South Korea and Japan created a "a hair trigger situation" on the Korean peninsula, referring to the two nations’ participating in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program weapons system, CNN reported.

The North Korean commentary comes a day before a 10-day, US-South Korea military exercise is scheduled to begin around South Korea.

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