CPP backs Pyongyang’s nuke program

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Thursday backed North Korea’s nuclear program and called President Rodrigo Duterte “a tool for US foreign aggression” after he called North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un a fool for conducting missile tests.

In a statement, the CPP said Duterte was a “buffoon” like US President Donald Trump and had no right to call Kim a maniac, pointing to the Philippine leader’s bloody war on drugs that it said had killed thousands of Filipinos.