North Korea warned Donald Trump to “think twice” and halt his military drills on the peninsula.
An opinion piece published in a state-run newspaper hit out at the joint exercises, held between the USA and South Korea.
It said the drills were all part of a “sinister scenario” in which the USA would purposefully spark a nuclear war.
The propaganda rag said: “The Trump administration of the U.S. is reported to mull introducing smaller tactical nuclear weapons in a bid to destroy the nuclear facilities of the DPRK.
“What matters is that such scheme is under consideration when the US is going to stage a high-intensity joint drill in the East Sea of Korea with mobilisation of a strike group.
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“This sheds light on the sinister scenario to provoke a nuclear war by all means so as to totally destroy the DPRK and exterminate the population of the north.”
The article said all-out nuclear war was near and the USA should back down before it was too late.
The piece continued: “Now, the Korean Peninsula is on the threshold of a nuclear disaster and no one knows at what time a thermonuclear war will break out.
“The Trump group should think twice about what terrible consequences the US will face due to its scheme for a nuclear attack on the DPRK.”
The bizarre tirade concluded by declaring a North Korean victory was “inevitable”.
It said: “The US reckless military gambling against the DPRK may lead to its total destruction.
“As the US denies even the existence of the DPRK and tries to topple it by force, the latter’s counteractions will be inevitable.
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“The DPRK is ready to counter the war of aggression with a war of justice and cope with the enemy’s dagger with a sword and his rifle with an artillery piece.
“It is the invariable stand of the Korean army and people and their permanent mode of counteraction.”