The party newspaper in North Korea, Rodong Sinmun, has said that US President Donald Trump deserves the death penalty for insulting leader Kim Jong-Un.

“The worst crime for which he can never be pardoned is that he dared [to] malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership,” the editorial said.

“He should know that he is just a hideous criminal sentenced to death by the Korean people.”

The editorial was referring to a tweet sent by Trump when he was recently in Asia, the latest in a series of insults hurled between them.

This one referred to the North Korean leader’s height and weight.

“Why would Kim Jong-Un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat’?” Trump tweeted.

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