It’s not exactly news that North Korea is upset with the United States. However, the subject matter of the most recent dustup between the nuclear-armed dictatorship and the “America First” Trump administration is an unusual one.
On Tuesday, North Korea’s foreign ministry blasted Trump for his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, removing the world’s second-largest emitter of global warming pollutants from the treaty.
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