The US mainland could be “reduced to ashes at any moment”, the North Korean government’s official newspaper has said, as tensions between the two countries continue to mount.
“It is a tragedy that the reckless and hysteric behaviours may reduce the US mainland to ashes [at] any moment,” it continued, according to KCNAWatch.
“The US and its vassal forces will dearly pay for the harshest sanctions and pressure and reckless military provocations against the DPRK,” it added.
The latest threats follow days of mounting tensions between the US government and the North Korean regime.
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7/8 This image made from video of still images broadcast in a news bulletin by North Korea's KRT, shows what was said to be a 'Combined Fire Demonstration' held to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the North Korean army, in Wonsan, North Korea.
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