North Korea slams Rubio's 'rogue state' label as 'nonsense,’ vows to push back against Trump administration

North Korea is criticizing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement of the state arsenic a "rogue state," calling it "nonsense" portion vowing to instrumentality "tough counteraction" to immoderate provocations from the Trump administration. 

Rubio made the remark past week during an quality connected "The Megyn Kelly Show," wherever helium was speaking astir the goals of U.S. overseas policy. 

"It’s not mean for the satellite to simply person a unipolar power. That was not – that was an anomaly. It was a merchandise of the extremity of the Cold War, but yet you were going to scope backmost to a constituent wherever you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers successful antithetic parts of the planet. We look that present with China and to immoderate grade Russia, and past you person rogue states similar Iran and North Korea you person to woody with," Rubio said, according to the State Department. 

North Korea’s overseas ministry said successful effect that Rubio "talked nonsense by terming the DPRK a ‘rogue state’ portion enumerating the overseas argumentation of the caller U.S. administration." 

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North Korean person Kim Jong Un, left, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service/AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

"The Foreign Ministry of the DPRK deems the U.S. State Secretary's hostile remarks to thoughtlessly tarnish the representation of a sovereign authorities arsenic a sedate governmental provocation wholly contrary to the rule of planetary instrumentality which regards respect for sovereignty and non-interference successful other's interior affairs arsenic its halfway and powerfully denounces and rejects it," work a connection published by North Korean authorities media. 

"Rubio's coarse and nonsensical remarks lone amusement straight the incorrect presumption of the caller U.S. medication connected the DPRK and volition ne'er assistance beforehand the U.S. interests arsenic helium wishes," the connection added, taking a swipe astatine the Trump administration. 

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President Donald Trump, right, met with Kim Jong Un successful Singapore successful June 2018 during Trump's archetypal word arsenic president. (AP/Evan Vucci)

"We volition ne'er tolerate immoderate provocation of the U.S., which has been ever hostile to the DPRK and volition beryllium hostile to it successful the future, too, but volition instrumentality pugnacious counteraction corresponding to it arsenic usual," it concluded. 

Rubio said during the interrogation that "now much than ever, we request to retrieve that overseas argumentation should ever beryllium astir furthering the nationalist involvement of the United States and doing so, to the grade possible, avoiding warfare and equipped conflict, which we person seen 2 times successful the past period beryllium precise costly.   

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, waves aft being welcomed by Panama's Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha, left, upon his accomplishment astatine the statesmanlike palace successful Panama City connected Sunday, Feb. 2. Panama is Rubio's archetypal travel overseas arsenic caput of State. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

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"They’re celebrating the 80th day this twelvemonth of the extremity of the Second World War. That – I deliberation if you look astatine the standard and scope of demolition and nonaccomplishment of beingness that occurred, it would beryllium acold worse if we had a planetary struggle now. It whitethorn extremity beingness connected the planet," helium besides said. "And it sounds similar hyperbole, but that’s – you person aggregate countries present who person the capableness to extremity beingness connected Earth. And truthful we request to truly enactment hard to debar equipped struggle arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, but ne'er astatine the disbursal of our nationalist interest. So that’s the tricky balance."