Trump threatens to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea US president uses debut UN address to threaten ‘wicked few’ oppressive regimes Donald Trump has threatened to “ totally destroy ” North Korea, in a bellicose first address to the United Nations general assembly in which he lashed out at a litany of US adversaries and called on “righteous” nations to confront them. US and China agree to 'maximise pressure' on North Korea The speech was greeted in the UN chamber mostly with silence and occasional outbreaks of disapproving murmurs, as Trump castigated a succession of hostile regimes. In an address heavy with echoes of George W Bush’s “Axis of Evil” State of the Union address more than 15 years earlier, Trump said: “The scourge of our planet today are a small group of rogue regimes.” ...