It comes as the US deployed a nuclear submarine to the Korean Peninsula in a series of military drills with South Korea amid fears tensions will escalate into World War 3.
Kim Jong-un’s mouthpiece, the Korean Central News Agency, blasted the drills as a “sinister scenario to provoke a nuclear war by all means” and vowed that North Korea will hit back if the US destroyed their nuclear facilities.
Referring the despotic nation by its North Korean abbreviation, it said: “The US reckless military gambling against DPRK may lead to its total destruction.
“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.”
KCNA also lashed out at reports the Trump administration are considering deploying smaller tactical nuclear weapons to the region.
It added: “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.
“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.”
Propaganda posters released to South Korea by the North also depicted missiles pointed at the US Government’s Capitol Building and a North Korean soldier stamping on what appears to be Donald Trump’s decapitated head.
Experts yesterday warned the US Government that North Korea could obliterate 90 per cent of the USA if Kim Jong-un detonates a deadly nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bomb.
Dr William R Graham and Dr Peter Vincent Pry, from the EMP Commission, told the US Hose of Representatives that fridges, lights, water and communication devices would become void if a hydrogen bomb detonated at an altitude of 30 to 400km above a target.
And the blast could end up killing 90 per cent of American indirectly, along with taking down aeroplanes in flight and cause trains to stop in their tracks.
US general Barry McCaffrey, who is reportedly known for his measured comments, also claimed that the US would be at war with the communist regime “by next summer” during a TV interview with NBC.
The former US Army general said: “The problem is we’ve got so many crises going on now, potentially, that he’s overloading the diplomatic effort, as well as the US armed forces’ ability to deal with it.
“I don’t want us to take our eye off North Korea.
“The current language out of the administration, that lack of a diplomatic and serious engagement strategy, in my view, has us sliding toward war by next summer.
“This war is on schedule under this administration.”
The news comes as the US deployed the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to the Korean Peninsula as part of week-long Navy drills with South Korea, which began yesterday.
They were joined by South Korean warships and aircraft as well as the US Special Forces aboard one of the nation’s nuclear-powered submarine.