North Korea warns it is on the brink of nuclear war with the U.S. and compares America to a ‘blackmailing gangster’
North Korea said the United States is holding it at ‘knifepoint’ with sanctions
The comments come as tensions between the North and United States continue to escalate and leader Kim Jong Un vows to continue nuclear missile tests
Trump said Friday that a ‘major, major conflict’ with North Korea was possible
China said the situation on the peninsula could escalate or slip out of control
By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN
DailyMail.com
28 April 2017
North Korea says it is ‘on the brink of nuclear war’ as the United States stages military drills with South Korea.
The country labeled the United States a ‘blackmailing gangster’ holding North Korea at ‘knifepoint’ by supporting its enemies and imposing economic sanctions.
The comments come as tensions between the North and United States continue to escalate and leader Kim Jong Un vows to continue nuclear missile tests.
North Korea, technically still at war with the South after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty, regularly threatens to destroy the United States and says it will pursue its nuclear and missile programmes to counter perceived US aggression.
‘It is just the U.S. which has pushed the situation on the peninsula to the brink of nuclear war by staging the largest-ever aggressive joint military drills against the DPRK for the past two months after bringing all sorts of nuclear strategic assets to south Korea,’ the North’s KCNA state news agency said in a commentary.
DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The agency continued: ‘No one in the world welcomes a gangster blackmailing the owner with a dagger.
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