North Korean foreign minister Ri Yong Ho on Wednesday said U.S. President Donald Trump had lit “the fuse of war” against the DPRK.

During an interview with Russia’s state-run ITAR-TASS news agency, Ri went on to threaten the United States with “a hail of fire.”

“By his belligerent and insane statement at the United Nations Trump, so to say, lighted the fuse of war against us,” the foreign minister told TASS.

During his speech at the UN General Assembly in September, U.S. President Donald Trump saidthe United States would “totally destroy” North Korea if it threatened the U.S. or its