Bolton is the second, top ranking US politician to be criticised by Pyongyang in recent days, after it labelled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as “reckless” Thursday, demanding his removal from talks over the North’s banned nuclear programme.

Those comments came hours after the isolated state claimed to have tested a new kind of weapon.

Pyongyang and Washington have been at loggerheads since the collapse of a summit between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump earlier this year.

In an interview with Bloomberg published Wednesday, Bolton urged Pyongyang to give a “real indication” it is willing give up nuclear weapons.

In comments cited by North Korea’s official KCNA news service, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui said Bolton’s remarks may have showed a “lack of understanding about the intentions of the two leaders”.

But, “they all sound uncharming and stupid to me”, she said.

“Nothing good would come to you if such insensitive remarks persist.”

In the Bloomberg interview, Bolton said that for a third Trump-Kim summit to take place, “a real indication from North Korea that they’ve made the strategic decision to give up nuclear weapons”, would be needed.

He said US Trump was “fully prepared” for his next summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, adding the Trump administration was ready for “the big deal”.

Chief justice Ranjan Gogoi said the accusations made by a 35-year-old junior court assistant were an attempt to stop him hearing important cases.

The 64-year-old called a special session of the country’s highest court and said it was below his dignity to deny the allegations, which he said were provoked by “bigger forces”.

The woman wrote to 22 Supreme Court judges on Friday, alleging Gogoi twice made unwanted sexual advances against her in the office inside his official residence in October last year.

“He hugged me around the waist, and touched me all over my body with his arms and by pressing his body against mine, and did not let go,” she wrote in the affidavit seen by AFP.

The woman also claimed she was dismissed from her job and her family was subjected to harassment after she rebuffed Gogoi’s advances.

She has called on the Supreme Court to set up a “special inquiry committee” to look into her affadavit.

“I have taken this unusual and extraordinary step of sitting in court today because things have gone too far,” Gogoi said in response. “The judiciary can’t be made a scapegoat.”

The chief justice, who is due to retire in November this year, said he would continue his work “without any fear”.

“There are forces that are trying to destabilise the judiciary… there are bigger forces behind these allegations hurled at me,” he told the special hearing, adding that the woman had a criminal background.

The controversy came amid a mounting #MeToo movement in India that has seen several Bollywood directors, actors and media figures accused of sexual harassment.

A junior foreign minister was forced to resign last year after several women accused him of harassment.

The Supreme Court has 25 judges appointed by the president, including the chief justice.

One of the country’s most respected institutions, the Supreme Court often rules on key policy matters and orders measures citing the public interest.

The 18 and 19-year-olds were arrested in Londonderry under anti-terror laws and taken to Belfast for questioning, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.

Journalist Lyra McKee was shot in the head late Thursday in Derry by, police believe, dissident republicans linked to the New IRA paramilitary group as they clashed with police on the Creggan estate in Northern Ireland’s second city.

Tributes to the 29-year-old were led by her partner, Sara Canning, who said McKee’s “amazing potential was snuffed out by this single barbaric act”.

Detectives hunting the gunman had released footage of the unrest, hoping that the community would help trace her killers.

Belfast-born McKee, 29, had posted an image from the riots, accompanied by the words “Derry tonight. Absolute madness”.

Images of the unrest on social media showed a car and van ablaze and hooded individuals throwing petrol bombs and fireworks at police vehicles.

Police chief Mark Hamilton said Friday “a single gunman fired shots in a residential area of the city and as a result wounded Ms McKee”.

Some officials blamed Thursday’s unrest on the “New IRA”, a republican paramilitary group opposed to the shift towards non-violent tactics to bring about a united Ireland.

The Saoradh party denies being the political wing of the New IRA (Irish Republican Army).

Saoradh said Friday that “heavily armed” police went in to Creggan “to attack republicans in advance of upcoming Easter Rising Commemorations”.

“The inevitable reaction to such an incursion was resistance from the youth of Creggan,” added the statement.

Officers discovered two trucks and a parked car — driven by two Taiwanese men — “showing signs of carrying illegal goods” in a Ho Chi Minh City district on April 12, said a police statement released late Friday.

The trucks held “extremely heavy” loudspeakers, which prompted suspicion when police found the drivers lacked legal papers to transport the equipment.

Stashed in the speakers were 600 gold-coloured Chinese tea packets, carrying 606 kilograms (1,336 pounds) of meth.

“Police discovered that each loudspeaker carried 10 tea packets… all of them containing methamphetamine”, the statement said.

The police traced the trucks’ route, which led them to a Vietnamese man, Bui Nguyen Vu, who had more loudspeakers filled with meth and ketamine.

“In total, the city police confiscated 103 loudspeakers with 1,110.26 kilograms of methamphetamine and 998.68 kilograms of ketamine for domestic consumption and re-export,” the statement said.

“The two Taiwanese men and Bui Nguyen Vu have been arrested for investigation.”

News of the bust comes on the heels of two massive drug hauls in central Nghe An province, where 600 kilograms of meth was discovered stuffed in speaker boxes in the home of an elderly couple and 900 kilograms was found abandoned on the side of a road earlier this week.

Vietnam is both a hub for drug use and a popular thoroughfare for shipments of illicit narcotics, with the number of large-scale hauls increasing in frequency and volume.

Much of the country’s illegal supply floods in from the lawless “Golden Triangle” zone that straddles Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.

Though older users in Vietnam have long prefered opium and heroin as their narcotic of choice, younger people are increasingly turning to party drugs such as meth, ketamine and ecstasy.

The one-party state has some of the toughest drug laws in the world. Anyone caught with more than 600 grams (21 ounces) of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine can face the death penalty.