State media KNCA said: “The US is making desperate efforts to chill the hard-won climate of detente on the peninsula.
“It deliberately strains the situation while massively introducing nuclear carrier task forces such as Carl Vinson, Ronald Reagan and Stennis and nuclear war hardware including B-2 and B-52 in the vicinity of the Korean Peninsula, and it is mulling putting brake on the positive development of the situation while crying out for tightening sanctions against the DPRK.”
The claim from Kim Jong-un’s propaganda machine comes as historic talks between the Koreas thawed icy relations ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
The two countries agreed to field a joint ice hockey team as tensions cooled after months of threats, but now Pyongyang claims the US is attempting to drive a wedge between the two nations.
The press release claimed Pyongyang’s olive branch sparked a “sinister” response from the US in a bid to discredit North Korea – including claims the paranoid hermit nation is developing the capability to fire multiple nuclear warheads simultaneously.
There were also warnings from the US that Kim had plans to auction off nuclear missiles to the highest bidder in a desperate attempt to earn some money amid tough United Nations sanctions.
News of these threats was coupled the revelation from CIA director Mike Pompeo that he has presented a series of “military options” to President Donald Trump.
The propaganda outlet said: “This is a revelation of the sinister intention of the Trump group to turn back the climate of reconciliation between the north and the south of Korea at any cost and focus international attention on the DPRK’s ‘denuclearisation’ once again as it is an expression of the US displeasure with the reality in which the situation is heading towards detente and peace on the Korean Peninsula.”
The CIA director was accused of shifting public opinion towards a potential “nuclear missile” threat.
KCNA said: “All facts clearly prove that what the US wants is not detente and peace on the Korean Peninsula but escalation of tension and war.”
The news comes after Trump was warned to prepare for war with North Korea by former US Army General and Defence Analyst Jack Keane.
Defence Analyst Jack Keane said America must stop sending military families to South Korea in order to allow the US to prepare for a war on North Korea.
Mr Keane said America must “start to bring our forces into the theatre” in an effort to shut down Kim Jong-un’s nuclear regime.
Mr Keane said: “I firmly believe that if you want to prevent war then make sure you are fully prepared for it.”
“If we are saying we are going to go to war to prevent him from having a nuclearised ICBM we have to show him some of that capability. We should not just be talking about it. Flying a bomber in for two or three days isn’t impressing anybody.
“Let’s put in place some of those resources that we would need to thicken the defence in South Korea and load up those bases, naval and air bases, with the capabilities we need.
“And then stop sending the military families to South Korea, that doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever.”