Donald Trump continues to taunt "Little Rocket Man" Kim Jong-un

Donald Trump continued his rhetorical sparring match with Kim Jong-un on Friday as he continued to refer to the North Korean leader as "Little Rocket Man".

Speaking at a rally in Alabama, Trump said the dictator "should have been handled a long time ago" and vowed to protect the US people.

The US President responded after he was branded "mentally unstable" by Kim, who vowed to "highest level of hard line counter measure in history" against Trump.

Trump injected himself into a bitter US Senate primary fight on Friday, putting to the test his ability to enlist his anti-establishment voters to help an endangered Republican incumbent.

He spoke at the rally on behalf of Senator Luther Strange, who was appointed after the seat was left vacant when Jeff Sessions was named Trump's attorney general.

Strange is trying to ward off a challenge from Roy Moore, an arch-conservative former state Supreme Court justice, in a runoff election next week. Polls show the race to be close.

The evening was reminiscent of the raucous campaign rallies that helped define Trump's insurgent presidential candidacy.

Addressing the crowds, Trump said: "And by the way, Rocket Man should have been handled a long time ago.

"He should have been handled a long time ago by Clinton. I won't mention the Republicans right. By Obama, Why? This is a different time.

"This should have been handled eight years ago and four years ago and honestly...and 15 years ago and 20 years ago 25 years ago... this shouldn't be handled now but I'm going to handle it because we have to handle it.

"Little Rocket Man, we're going to do it because we really have no choice, we really have no choice."

Addressing the nuclear weapon threat, Trump said: "Now he's talking about a massive weapon exploding over the ocean the Pacific which causes tremendous, tremendous calamity.

"Where that plume goes so goes cancer so goes, tremendous problems, and I want to tell you something, and I'm sure he's listening because he watches every word and I guarantee you one thing.

"He's watching us like he never watched anybody before that I can tell you that I can tell. And maybe something gets worked out and maybe it doesn't. Personally I'm not sure that it will.

"Other people like to say oh we want it or they've been saying for now 25 years. We want peace we want peace, and then he goes it just keeps going going going.

"Well maybe something gets worked out, and maybe it doesn't but I can tell you one thing you are protected.

"OK, you are protected. Nobody is going to mess with our people. Nobody is going to play games. Nobody is going to put our people in that kind of danger."

Source: Mirror Online