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President Trump Calls North Korea’s Kim Jong-un “Short and Fat”

HeadlineNov 13, 2017

In other news from Asia, the U.S. and North Korea openly traded insults over the weekend. North Korea described Trump as a “warmonger” and an “old lunatic.” Trump responded on Twitter by writing, “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me 'old,' when I would NEVER call him 'short and fat?'”

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