‘You're DOOMED to RUIN!’ North Korea sends USA war threat as nuclear tension mounts
NORTH Korea has sent a terrifying warning to its Western enemies, telling America it is “doomed to ruin”.
The hermit state, which has continued to carry out provocative missile tests despite worldwide condemnation, issued the threat in a Pyongyang-based newspaper.
The propaganda rag sent a direct threat to despot Kim Jong-un’s biggest enemies, describing the US as “imperialists” and South Korea as “puppet warmongers”.
The fiery opinion piece threatened America with devastation and accused South Korea of going “mad” by teaming up with Washington.
It also said if the two states continued threatening North Korea and imposing sanctions they would meet “shameful ruin”.
The US imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers are more desperately resorting to military provocations
The piece read: “The US imperialists and the south Korean puppet warmongers are more desperately resorting to military provocations against the DPRK.
“The US imperialists' reckless hysteria for invasion of the DPRK has created such acute situation on the Korean peninsula that a war may break out any moment.
“The South Korean authorities have gone mad in military provocations against the DPRK in collusion with their American master.”
The bizarre editorial said it was America and South Korea, not the sabre-rattling North Korea Kim administration, who were escalating tension on the peninsula.
It concluded: “The south Korean authorities are getting keen on escalating military confrontation targeting the fellow countrymen while serving their master, being played into the trick of the US trying to maintain the north-south stand-off and provoke a nuclear war against the north.
“This amounts to an act of hideous treachery hurting the destiny of the nation.
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“It is a lesson of history that the traitors who are keen on sycophancy toward the US and escalation of stand-off between the fellow countrymen, going against the trend of the times and desire of the nation, are bound to meet a shameful ruin.”
It comes after it emerged North Korea is now capable of bombing the US mainland.
Washington-based watchdog 38 North said if the state’s scientists can find a way to create a bomb weighing less than one tonne the heavily-populated West Coast of America could be targeted.
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38 North expert Michael Elleman warned: "No one outside of North Korea knows the precise status of its nuclear-bomb making capabilities.
"However, it is reasonable to assume North Korea can construct a bomb that weighs less than one-metric ton, with a diameter of less than one metre.
"This could be easily carried by the Hwasong-14, though to reach the US mainland, a lighter-weight bomb may be required."