Pyongyang cites ‘reckless moves’ by US and says it will defend the country from invasion ‘by powerful force of arms’, according to reports.

North Korea has warned of “catastrophic consequences” in response to any further provocations by the US, days after a US navy battle group was sent to waters off the Korean peninsula.

The decision to divert the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and other battleships from a planned visit to Australia to the western Pacific came after tensions increased over ongoing military drills involving American and South Korean forces that Pyongyang regards as a dress rehearsal for an invasion.

“We will hold the US wholly accountable for the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by its outrageous actions,” North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying. “(North Korea) is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the US.”

“We will take the toughest counteraction against the provocateurs in order to defend ourselves by powerful force of arms.”

Last week’s US strike against a Syrian base is also being seen as a warning to North Korea, after Donald Trump said Washington was prepared to act alone if China failed to exert more pressure on its neighbour to halt its missile and nuclear weapons programmes.

North Korea again defied UN resolutions banning it from developing ballistic missile technology with another test-launch on the eve of Trump’s summit with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in Florida last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/11/north-korea-ready-for-war-us-navy-redeploys

If you tell a lie often enough, you begin to believe it yourself. Kim Jong Un has no idea what's about to hit him. I hate what the US did in Syria. This is another story though.

It's just more rhetoric. North Korea has nuclear weapons to deter other countries from invading them, if they really tried to use them on other countries they'd be invaded no doubt, which would be the exact opposite of what they want.

Getting really tired of these "threats" by this shitty country.

Uh, Kimmy, April Fools was more than a week ago.

Ready for war is cute, be over within the week.

A war between the US and NK wouldn't be a war...The US Navy could just sit out of range and bomb the fuck out of them.

Hahahahahaha

Yeah, North Korea has a hard time keeping the lights on at night, they think they can take on the US, South Korea, and Japan? Maybe even China might join in.

...Goodness, I would love seeing the Kim dynasty come to an end and the Koreas ultimately reunited.

China is still an allied with North Korea. China would utterly destroy Japan and South Korea. Hell I even think China can beat the US.