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North Korean state media has released new propaganda photos showing American aircraft carrier and warplanes being blown up.
The doctored footage was shown on the DPRK Today website on Sunday, hours after U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers and F-15C Eagle fighter jets carried out a show of force over international waters east of North Korea.
The show of force Saturday followed an escalating war of words between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The 99-second video begins with President Trump standing on a podium in front of service members, accompanied by ominous music. He was speaking at the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Air Force at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. Trump is described in the footage as "a mad man," the news agency said.
Two ballistic missiles are then seen striking an American bomber and jet, which explode into balls of flames. Another missile, launched from a submarine, then hones in on the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier.
The video carries the caption: “Should F-35, B-1B and the Carl Vinson lead the U.S. attack, they will head to the grave in that order,” according to Yonhap. It ends with footage of an American flag on fire with crosses in the background.
In a speech Saturday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho called Trump “a mentally deranged person full of megalomania” who is holding “the nuclear button.”
Late Saturday, Trump tweeted, "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!"
In a speech before the U.N., Trump had called Kim a “Rocket Man” on a “suicide mission" and warned that the U.S. could "totally destroy North Korea" if provoked.
North Korea has threatened to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific for the first time and launch four missiles toward the U.S. territory of Guam.
“This is the farthest north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) any U.S. fighter or bomber aircraft have flown off North Korea’s coast in the 21st century, underscoring the seriousness with which we take the DPRK’s reckless behavior,” U.S. Pacific Command spokesperson Dana White said in a statement about the mission Saturday.
White said the exercise was a demonstration of U.S. resolve and a clear message that Trump "has many military options to defeat any threat."
North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date earlier this month, and was hit with tough new U.N. sanctions. North Korea responded by launching a ballistic missile over Japan. The U.S. military then flew bombers and fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula and near Japan in a show of force.
Source: US Today
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