WASHINGTON: US bombers and fighter escorts flew off the coast of North Korea Saturday in a show of force against its nuclear weapons program, escalating already sky-high tensions.

The hermit state’s foreign minister, meanwhile, assailed US President Donald Trump at the United Nations, deriding him as a “mentally deranged” leader whose threats had increased the chances of military confrontation.

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