North Korea blasts Japan's Abe, warns of 'real ballistic missile'

rth Korea on Saturday warned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he could soon see a "real ballistic missile" while excoriating him as "most stupid man ever kwn in history". colourful condemnation comes two days after isolated state tested what it called a "super-large multiple launch rocket system", with South Korea reporting that two projectiles came down in Sea of Japan, also kwn as East Sea.

rth Korea Threatens Japan

In wake of launch, which was supervised by rth Korean leer Kim Jong Un, Abe termed fired weapons "ballistic missiles" that violated UN resolutions.

"It can be said that Abe is only one idiot in world and most stupid man ever kwn in history as he fails to distinguish a missile from multiple launch rocket system while seeing photo-accompanied report," a foreign ministry official said in a statement carried by state news ncy KCNA.

"Abe may see what a real ballistic missile is in t distant future and under his se...  Abe is ne or than a perfect imbecile," it ded.

It was best for rth to avoid dealing with Abe, official went on, ding that doing so with a "political dwarf" would bring "disgrace".

Saturday criticism of Japanese leer is second of its kind by Pyongyang this month. rth h slammed him as an "idiot and villain" and warned he will never set foot in Pyongyang after he condemned rth's weapons test days earlier.

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Pyongyang is under multiple sets of international sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes, which it says it needs to defend against a possible US invasion.

Nuclear negotiations between US and rth have been at a standstill since Hai summit between President Donald Trump and leer Kim Jong Un broke up in February, and Pyongyang has since demanded Washington change its approach by end of year.

rth Korea has issued a series of increasingly assertive comments in recent weeks as time runs down on its end-of-year deline.

Trump hinted at prospect of a fourth meeting with Kim in a tweet earlier this month, only to be rebuffed by rth, which said it h interest in summits "that bring thing to us". 

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