North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned President Trump for pulling the United States out of the Paris agreement on climate change, dubbing it a “shortsighted and silly decision.” In a statement published Tuesday on Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and attributed to an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman, the isolated country warned that “global warming is one of the gravest challenges humankind is facing today” and praised the Paris accord for its attempt to stop it. Noting that the Trump administration had announced on June 1 that the United States would leave the landmark agreement, the unnamed official attributed the decision to Trump's “America First” policy and to ignorance “of the fact that the protection of the global environment is in their own interests.” “This is the height of egotism and moral vacuum seeking only their own well-being at the cost of the entire planet,” the statement said. read more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...the-height-of-egotism/?utm_term=.73c821affeb8
