Pyongyang’s state-controlled news agency KCNA issued a statement today directly threatening Japan, stating the country’s preparations for a possible war could be “destroyed to pieces”.
The statement read: “Should Japan take the advantages of the US war racket, they can not but be a target of the powerful strike means of the DPRK’s revolutionary armed forces.
“Japan can never be safe if a war breaks out on the Korean peninsula. Everything in Japan mobilised for the war can be destroyed to pieces, to say nothing of the US aggression bases there.
“The Japanese authorities are strongly warned that if they go reckless with the backing of the US they can bring irrevocable misfortune to the Japanese archipelago.”
The warning comes after the reclusive communist country led by dictator Kim Jong-un appears to be preparing for war itself.
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An article in a state-run newspaper said the country was now in “full readiness” for battle after months of verbal attacks.
It said: “All our service persons and people have turned out in the retaliatory war of justice.
“The DPRK has already been in full readiness. All striking means are on the alert.”
The newspaper, a mouthpiece for Kim’s one-party dictatorship, promised a “dreadful and horrible” war if America does not back off and lift sanctions.
The latest threat to Japan comes less than a week from the last one where Kim issued a threat to bring “nuclear clouds to Japan” if it did not back down on sanctions against North Korea.
Kim also blasted the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, branding him a “headless chicken” and “suicidal”.
Kim has focused his attention on Japan in recent days in retaliation for the Japanese prime minister’s speech at the UN in which he called for tougher sanctions against the North.
Tensions have risen on the Korean peninsula since the hermit kingdom conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on September 3.
This led to a new round of sanctions after a unanimous vote by the UN Security Council.
Mr Abe used his speech at the UN last month to call on member states to block North Korea’s access to “goods, funds people and technology” if it continued to test nuclear weapons.
This sparked fury from Kim, who blasted back: “Japan’s such rackets inciting the tension of the Korean peninsula is a suicidal deed that will bring nuclear clouds to the Japanese archipelago.
“No one knows when the touch-and-go situation will lead to a nuclear war, but if so, the Japanese archipelago will be engulfed in flames in a moment. This is too self-evident.”
Over the weekend US President Donald Trump launched his latest verbal attack on North Korea, saying that “only one thing will work” in dealing with Pyongyang, indicating that military action was likely.
In recent weeks, North Korea has launched two missiles over Japan and conducted its sixth nuclear test, all in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions, and may be fast advancing toward its goal of developing a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the US mainland.