North Korea and US to counter ‘nuclear with nuclear’ World War 3 threat See- (Photos)

NORTH KOREA has vowed to counter "nuclear with nuclear" against the US and committed to building up its "nuclear war deterrent".

In a 5,500-word report, published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MFA) Institute for Disarmament and Peace, North Korea blamed the US for the failure in DPRK-US dialogue. A statement was released to mark 70 years since the Korean War.

The report said: “In order to eliminate the nuclear threats from the US, the DPRK government made all possible efforts either through dialogue or in resort to the international law, but all ended in vain.

“The option left was only one, and that was to counter nuclear with nuclear.”

It went on to say how a “strong war deterrent for national defence came to stand out as an indispensable strategic option”.

Tensions between the US and North Korea were heightened after the failure of the 2018 Singapore Summit with President Donal Trump.

The report claims “nuclear threats” against North Korea became aggressive following the Summit.

It said: “The US hostile policy and nuclear threats against the DPRK became further aggressive after the DPRK-US Summit held in Singapore for establishing a new bilateral relationship and building a lasting and durable peace mechanism on the Korean peninsula.”

The report argues the US failed to respond with corresponding measures and said: “Despite the fact that we voluntarily took crucial and meaningful initiatives including the discontinuation of nuclear test and ICBM test-fire for the sake of building a mural confidence.”

The MFA report went on to condemn threats from the US and accused them of “blackmailing” the North with nuclear threats.