Arizona Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainMcSally says current Senate should vote on Trump nominee Say what you will about the presidential candidates, as long as it isn't 'They're too old' The electoral reality that the media ignores MORE (R) on Wednesday responded to criticism from North Korea for his description of Kim Jong-un as a “crazy fat kid" last week, jokingly asking if he was expected to call him a "crazy skinny kid."

"What, did they want me to call him a crazy skinny kid?" McCain tweeted alongside an article by The Daily Caller that read "North Korea Flips Out After McCain Calls Kim Jong-Un A ‘Crazy Fat Kid’."

What, did they want me to call him a crazy skinny kid? https://t.co/Ym3juRfBev — John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) March 29, 2017

McCain on MSNBC's "For the Record with Greta" knocked the North Korean leader last week.

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"China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong-un, this crazy fat kid that’s running North Korea,” McCain said.

“They’re the ones. They could stop North Korea’s economy in a week.”

McCain has previously called for a more aggressive stance on North Korea in United States policy. In January 2016, the senator argued America should deploy a missile system in the Korean Peninsula in response to North Korean claims it conducted a nuclear test.

McCain in the Wednesday interview compared Kim Jong-un to the Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin.