Asia Pacific

What will President Trump do about North Korea?

It is unusual, but the North Korean media seems lost for words. The mouthpieces of the Supreme Leader have so far had little to say about the 45th president of the United States of America.

Probably, like most of the rest of the world, Mr Kim and those close to him never assumed it would happen, so the barrage of rhetoric was directed at outgoing President Obama and his presumed successor.

He was a "wicked black monkey" and Hillary Rodham Clinton was a "pensioner going shopping" (the finer points of political correctness not having yet reached the Democratic People's Republic of Korea).

Either way, the United States represented a "completely failed regime" that "will certainly be buried" in the "cesspool of history".