Ri, who had called Trump “mentally deranged” after the UN speech, told TASS that North Korea was “winning” and represented “a worthy counterweight to the US”. Echoing previous warnings by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Ri said that “the US should act sensibly and stop touching us if they do not want to disgrace themselves in the face of the whole world”, and added that his tion’s forces “will not leave America, the aggressor state, unpunished”.