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The hermit state said America was a “ringleader” for global warming and blasted Donald Trump for pulling out of the accord. An article in one of Kim Jong-un’s propaganda newspapers accused the USA of “swimming against the trend of the times”. It said the USA’s actions could reduce the earth “to a desert” during a furious tirade against their biggest rival.

GETTY North Korea has hit out at the USA over its climate change policy

The piece said: “The US is making no scruple of indiscriminately polluting the global environment against the present trend of times amid the ever-growing attention paid by the world public to preventing the global warming.” North Korea said greenhouses gases combined with nuclear fallout was America’s biggest contribution to climate change. READ MORE: What is the Paris Agreement?

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If the US continues swimming against the trend of the times protecting the global environment, it will not escape from the stern judgment of mankind North Korean newspaper

It said: “All facts clearly show that the US is not only a ringleader which spawned global warming threatening the human existence and future of the earth but the enemy of mankind driving into an irretrievably catastrophic consequences by disturbing even the worldwide efforts to prevent it. “If the US continues swimming against the trend of the times protecting the global environment, it will not escape from the stern judgment of mankind.

GETTY Donald Trump said he was withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement

“Actually, the earth is exposed to the danger of being reduced to a desert hit by radioactive pollution due to the armed intervention being perpetrated by the U.S. across the world under the pretext of ‘combating terrorism’.” Donald Trump pulled America out of the historic agreement on June 1, in order to “put American workers first”. Only two other countries have not signed the agreement: Nicaragua, who believe it didn’t do enough to fight against climate change, and dictator Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. READ MORE: Why does Donald Trump want to pull out of the Paris Agreement?

Mr Trump said: “As someone who cares deeply about the environment, as I do, I cannot in good conscience support a deal which harms the United States, which it does. "We will have the cleanest air, the cleanest water, but we're not going to lose our jobs." The move was criticised by leaders across the globe, including North Korean despot Kim Jong-un.

GETTY Kim Jong-un has accused Donald Trump of risking humanity's existence