North Korea threatens to launch ‘full-out war’, says US has gone mad

Amid reports that it is plotting to launch its sixth missile test, defiant North Korea led by Kim Jong Un is threatening America again; this time, Pyongyang has vowed to launch “full-out war” against America with nuclear weapons.

“Now that we possess mighty nuclear power to protect ourselves from US nuclear threat, we will respond without the slightest hesitation to full-out war with full-out war and to nuclear war with our style of nuclear strike, and we will emerge victor in the final battle with the United States,” the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

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The threat by North Korea is coming amid reports of the imminent arrival of an American naval strike group off the Korean Peninsula.

According to American Vice President Mike Pence, the USS Carl Vinson will arrive in the Sea of Japan in days, after mixed messages from the US over the warship’s whereabouts.

North Korea’s missile tests has heightened tensions between the US and Pyongyang in recent weeks prompting dire warnings from President Donald Trump ‘s administration about curtailing its nuclear weapons programme.

 

 

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