North Korea’s official news agency KCNA has issued its latest statement, hitting out at the US President.
KCNA said Mr Trump would “pay dearly for his reckless invectives” and insults to the “Korean nation”.
Repeating its previous “dotard” insult, it stated: “The rabid dotard Trump cannot evade a merciless divine punishment.
The latest statement from the news agency was featured in a story about the Chondoist Chongu party, a North Korean popular front party based on the religion of Chondoism.
The strongly nationalist party currently has 22 seats out of 687 in the country’s national assembly.
And the party is effectively under the control of the ruling Workers Party of Korea led by Kim Jong-un, according to the CIA.
The statement also issued what it called a “stern declaration of final doom” on the entire US.
It said: “Mounting day by day is the retaliatory will of all the service personnel and people of the DPRK enraged at the invectives of rabid Trump who revealed the attempt to drive the Korean people into the disaster of a nuclear war while daring to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.
“The group of brutes is making desperate efforts to destroy the DPRK, the life which can not be bartered for anything and can never be seized. We cannot tolerate this.”
It comes as the Pentagon said it would give Mr Trump “options” to deal with Pyongyang if KimJong-un’s regime continues to threaten the US.
The rogue nation’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho earlier claimed Mr Trump had declared war on his country and warned North Korea reserves the right to shoot down down US bombers even if they are not in North Korean airspace.
Ri, who has been in New York having attended last week’s UN General Assembly, made the statement to reporters before returning from his car to add: “In light of the declaration of war by Trump, all options will be on the operations table of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.”
The White House has since released a statement describing his claims as “absurd”.
Pentagon spokesman Colonel Robert Manning told reporters today: “If North Korea does not stop their provocative actions, you know, we will make sure that we provide options to the President to deal with North Korea.”
Mr Trump had promised to “totally destroy” North Korea, hitting the country with “fire and fury” in his recent speech at the UN following a series of nuclear tests conducted by Kim.
In turn, Kim responded to the first threat personally, calling the US President a “dotard” and pledging to “tame him with fire”.
Reacting to remarks by North Korea’s foreign minister on Monday, China’s UN Ambassador Liu Jieyi said the escalating rhetoric between North Korea and the US was getting too dangerous and the only solution was negotiations.
Liu said: ”We want things to calm down. It’s getting too dangerous and it’s in nobody’s interest.
”We certainly hope that (the United States and North Korea) will see that there is no other way than negotiations to solve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula… The alternative is a disaster.”