SHOCK North Korea WARNING to US: ‘World will end as we know it’, blasts Kim Jong-un ally

special delegate Mr Cao said nobody across the world would survive if was to start a nuclear war with Kim Jong-un.

Despot dictator has sparked fears of after failing to stop production of nuclear weapons despite international condemnation.

The US President became engaged in a furious war of words with Pyongyang with each side exchanging threats of war.

Mr Cao told Channel 9’s 60 Minutes programme North Korea would respond to any US aggression with deadly consequences.

He said: “If North Korea is attacked nuclearly by the United States the answer will be nuclear as well.

“The United States would destroy the world by launching a nuclear attack on North Korea, we will just answer.

“At the moment you launch ten missiles that are equivalent to 1,000 bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who will survive in this world? Not Australian, not Spanish, nobody in the United States.

“The world will end as we know it.”

The warning comes as new satellite images reveal North Korea is on an “aggressive schedule to build and deploy its first operational ballistic missile submarine”.

The images appear to show a submarine in a shipyard and the continued movement of parts and components suggests the shipbuilding is ongoing, according to military experts.

North Korean defence expert Joseph S. Bermudez Jr told 38 North their images indicate an “aggressive schedule”.

He added: “A probable launch canister support, or launch canister, appears to be present with the service tower at the missile test stand suggesting the ongoing ejection testing of submarine ballistic missiles.

“Such testing could support the continued development of SLBMs, a new ballistic missile submarine or both.

“The presence of what appears to be sections of a submarine’s pressure hull in the yards suggests construction of a new submarine, possible the SINPO-C ballistic missile submarine – the follow-on to the current SINPO-class experimental ballistic missile submarine.”