North Korea's top diplomat issued a disparaging response to President Donald Trump on Thursday, likening his United Nations speech to "the sound of a barking dog."

In his first speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump said he would "totally destroy" North Korea if the isolated regime threatened the U.S. or its allies.

"If he was thinking he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that's really a dog dream," Ri Yong Ho, North Korean Foreign minister, told reporters near the UN headquarters in New York.

In Korean, a "dog dream" is one that typically refers to something absurd or unrealistic.the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to dismissing the resulting bipartisan deal with racist quips about people from “shithole” countries. Just 13 hours before the government officially shut down, Trump put Republicans on edge when he invited Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to a one-on-one meeting at the White House. During a televised meeting weeks earlier, Trump had embraced the Democrats’ immigration stance before a GOP House leader jumped in to correct him.

Nothing came of Trump and Schumer’s Friday lunch, but since then White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has reportedly been handling most calls from congressional leaders. According to the Post, over the weekend aides including Kelly, legislative affairs head Marc Short, and budget director Mick Mulvaney urged Trump to stop trying to strike a