Behind the bombast - North Korea's genteel foreign minister


  • World
  • Friday, 29 Sep 2017

FILE PHOTO: North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho departs after addressing the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 23, 2017. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

SEOUL (Reuters) - The man who called Donald Trump "President Evil" last week at the U.N. General Assembly is actually a genteel intellectual who studies the memoirs of former U.S. presidents and has taste for fine whisky, according to ten people who know him.

North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho made headlines in the Sept. 23 speech to the 193-member General Assembly, and also two days earlier when he revealed to reporters outside his hotel that North Korea's next move might be to detonate a hydrogen bomb above the Pacific Ocean, in response to U.S. President Trump's threat to "totally destroy" his country of 26 million people.

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