North Korea’s state-owned news agency KCNA compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler and compared his “America First” policy to “Nazism in the 21st Century” in an article on Monday.
“The ‘American-first principle’ is, in essence, the continuation and the expanded version of the hegemonic pursuance sought by the successive U.S. administrations,” the article said.
Trump’s “America First” policy encourages American aggression towards other nations, the article said, which “is the American version of Nazism far surpassing the fascism in the last century in its ferocious, brutal and chauvinistic nature.”
“Just following Hitler’s dictatorial politics, Trump’s ‘two-nation strategy’ justifies suppression after dividing nationals into two categories i.e. friends and foes,” the article said. “The strategy creates the atmosphere of horror among political, public, media, information and all other circles in the U.S., putting Trump, advocator of the idea, on the chopping board of impeachment himself.”
The article also identifies Trump’s “anti-immigration politics” as “little short of fascism’s racist politics” and his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement a “U.S. act of conniving at the indefinite emission of carbon dioxide for its own interests as ‘an act of putting into the shade Hitler’s poisonous gas atrocity’ and ‘a crime to annihilate humankind by turning green planet into a poisonous gas room as a whole.'”
“[America’s] wild act of blocking even medical appliances and medications, to say nothing of even a drop of fuel oil, from entering the country, is an unethical and inhumane act, far exceeding the degree of Hitler’s blockade of Leningrad,” said the article in response to Trump’s position on North Korea.
This is not the first time the North Korean media has taken aim at Trump, as one North Korean newspaper referred to him as a “psychopath” prepared to launch an attack to distract from domestic issues earlier this month.
Tensions between the U.S. and the Hermit Kingdom have been strained more than usual after the death of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier, who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months and died shortly after returning to the U.S. in a coma.
