The threat of conflict between Kim Jong-un’s nuclear-armed North and the South, backed by Donald Trump, has been looming over the Korean Peninsula for months.
And today the rogue state warned of an impending “showdown” between the two nations.
Kim’s regime has ramped up its anti-US rhetoric ever since President Trump visited East Asia as part of a 12-day tour aimed at boosting trade and drumming up support for a solution to the North Korean crisis.
The secretive kingdom’s state-controlled media service told the North Korean people today how their former countrymen south of the Demilitarised Zone are suffering “untold pains under the US occupation and domination”.