Trump, who has had a rare series of meetings with Kim during his first term, said in January that he would reach out to the North Korean leader again, calling Kim a "smart guy". - AP
SEOUL: North Korea on Monday (Feb 3) criticised Marco Rubio for calling the country a "rogue state", dismissing as "nonsense" a comment made by the top US diplomat during a recent interview.
In Pyongyang's first public denunciation of the new Trump administration, a foreign ministry spokesman said that "we will never tolerate any provocation of the US... but will take tough counteraction corresponding to it as usual", according to a statement carried on state news service KCNA.
