"...old beast lunatic..."

[Miles Archer]

Kim Jong Un Insulted Donald Trump And Taught America A New Word At The Same Time



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kim-jong-un-donald-trump-dotard_us_59c46bfee4b01cc57ff114e5

President Donald Trump called Kim Jong Un “rocket man” earlier this week, and now the North Korean dictator has returned fire.

Kim gave Trump a nickname of his own ― and it’s one that sent Americans scrambling for a dictionary.

“I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged dotard with fire,” Kim said in a statement released by the North Korean government Thursday.

Freelance journalist Jihye Lee said the original statement in Korean used a term better translated as “old beast lunatic,” but it became “dotard” in the English version released by North Korea.

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The Korean original statement said "늙다리 미치광이," which means old beast lunatic -- which was translated into "dotard."

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