It's North Korea's Turn to Speak at the U.N.

[DonViejo]

WHO IS NORTH KOREA FOREIGN MINISTER RI YONG HO, SPEAKING ON KIM JONG UN'S BEHALF AT THE U.N.?

BY SOFIA LOTTO PERSIO ON 9/23/17 AT 5:37 AM

North Korea's latest turn on the world stage comes Saturday, when foreign minister Ri Yong Ho is scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly, a year to the date of a defiant speech on September 23, 2016.

Ri—not to be confused with his namesake, a former top military official reportedly purged and executed in 2012—will fill in once again for the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, who has not left the country in official capacity since he first took power in 2011.

At the time, he defended the country's nuclear development program against "constant nuclear threats of the U.S." and this year too the speech is expected to address ongoing tensions between North Korea and the international community, which has imposed a series of sanctions on the pariah state through the U.N. Security Council.

Ri's speech is likely to single out the U.S. and President Donald Trump. “My guess is that he will launch into a pretty intense assault on the United States and its 'hostile policies,' and that he will excoriate the allies of the United States and maybe even make oblique negative references to China and Russia,” Evans Revere, a former State Department official who has previously met Ri, told the Washington Post.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Or he'll know that

the first person to act like an adult wins the argument.

[Not Ruth]

2. Anyone have a transcript of last year's speech, would love to compare.....