Supreme leader Kim Jong-Un vows to reduce US ‘to ashes’ with nuke strikes
The rogue state threatened to use its 'invincible Hwasong rockets' to rain down nuclear destruction on its enemies
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KIM Jong-un has threatened to reduce the US “to ashes” as tensions with North Korea continue to increase.
The secretive state released a statement earlier this month warning Donald Trump of nuclear destruction if America fires “even a single bullet” towards Pyongyang.
The statement said: “The Korean People’s Army will reduce the bases of aggression and provocation to ashes with its invincible Hwasong rockets tipped with nuclear warheads and reliably defend the security of the country and its people’s happiness in case the US and the South Korean puppet forces fire even a single bullet at the territory of the DPRK.”
The menacing talk came as South Korea warned that its northern neighbour’s latest rocket-engine test showed “meaningful” progress.
Lee Jin-woo, deputy spokesman for the South Korean defence ministry, said: “Through this test, it is found that engine function has made meaningful progress but further analysis is needed for exact thrust and possible uses.”
State-run North Korean media reported that the country’s despotic leader had hailed the test as “a new birth” of its rocket industry.
US President Donald Trump told reporters he held meetings on North Korea during the weekend at his Florida resort.
While he did not refer specifically to the rocket-engine test, he said Kim Jong-un was “acting very, very badly”.
Trump and members of his administration have been talking tough on North Korea since the Republican took office back in January.
He said: “The diplomatic and other efforts of the past 20 years to bring North Korea to a point of de-nuclearisation have failed. So we have 20 years of a failed approach.
“And that includes a period in which the US provided $1.35billion (£1.08billion) in assistance to North Korea as an encouragement to take a different pathway.”
He added: “If they elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level we believe requires action that option is on the table.”
The first exercise of its kind saw civilians young and old scrambling for cover as air-raid sirens wailed.
