Trump takes on N. Korea, says ‘no regime more brutal than theirs’

TIL Desk/World/UN/ The US president now takes on his arch nemesis North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in his State of the Union address:

>>No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally & more brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea. Its reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland.

>>We are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from ever happening.

>>Trump tells the story about North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho, who Trump says travelled thousands of miles on crutches across China and Southeast Asia to freedom.

>>He lifts a pair of crutches high and is cheered. He keeps the crutches up. Its a powerful image.