North Korea state media said the nation “can never stop bolstering up the nuclear deterrent”, adding in a chilling warning that “no one can guess when a nuclear war may break out”.
The statement from Kim’s mouthpiece said: “The USA’s more persistent moves to launch a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula would precipitate its final doom.”
Fears of World War Three were provoked yesterday after the tyrannical regime fired a ballistic missile, which was powerful enough to carry a nuclear warhead, over Japan.
But despite the despot’s defiant response, US President Donald Trump has failed to reign in his warnings against North Korea.
Hitting back, Mr Trump: “The US has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!”
The latest launched may have brought North Korea closer to war with the US as Kim continues to test the country’s ability over whether his nuclear weapons could reach the US Pacific territory of Guam.
According to sate media, Kim said: “The current ballistic rocket launching drill like a real war is the first step of the military operation of the Korean People’s Army in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam.”
The Rodong Sinmun newspaper, mouthpiece of the North’s ruling party, on Wednesday carried more than 20 pictures of this week’s launch near Pyongyang.
Smiling broadly in the images, in one Kim is seen sat at a desk with a map of the Northwest Pacific. While in another, the laughing despot watches on surrounded by aides as the Hwasong-12 missile was launched.
The war of words between Pyongyang and Washington have drastically worsened since the launch, with North Korea yesterday telling Donald Trump it won’t “flinch an inch” as it continues to build up its nuclear arsenal.
The US responded by telling Kim’s regime “enough is enough” as Washington’s ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said: “No country should have missiles flying over them like those 130 million people in Japan.”