Seoul — North Korea’s state media described President Donald Trump’s "America First" policy as "Nazism in the 21st century," and compared the US president to Adolf Hitler, in the harshest language that Pyongyang has directed at the Trump administration. Mr Trump’s policy "is the American version of Nazism far surpassing the fascism in the last century in its ferocious, brutal and chauvinistic nature," Pyongyang’s state-controlled Korean Central News Agency said in a report published Tuesday. The language reflects North Korea’s hardening line on Mr Trump, as the US president turns up the heat on the regime nearly six months into his administration. While North Korean propaganda regularly targets the US with military threats, it has remained quiet until recently on the president himself. Typically, North Korea has given new leaders in Washington and Seoul a wider berth at the beginning of their terms, as Pyongyang feels out their likely policies. Relations with the Obama administratio...
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