North Korea’s Warnings to Australia Become Desperate as Kim Feels Increasing Pressure From Sanctions

North Korea’s Warnings to Australia Become Desperate as Kim Feels Increasing Pressure From Sanctions
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un on Sept. 21, 2017. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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SYDNEY—North Korea has sent a letter to Australia’s parliament, warning it is a nuclear power and will not be cowed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to destroy it, according to a copy of the letter published in an Australian newspaper on Friday.

“If Trump thinks that he would bring the DPRK, a nuclear power, to its knees through nuclear war threat, it will be a big miscalculation and an expression of ignorance,” said a facsimile of the letter, published by the Sydney Morning Herald and verified by Australia’s foreign ministry.