TYRANT Kim Jong-un has warned it would be a "piece of cake" to nuke Japan and leave it "blanketed in radioactive clouds", it's reported.
North Korea reprimanded Japan for "intentionally encouraging" a Korean Peninsula crisis after flying training drills with the US and South Korea in a show of strength.
The comments were made by Rodong Sinmun, an official of the North's ruling Workers' Party, in an article titled "Japan's Reckless Act Which Drives Itself into Ruin", according to Yonhap News.
It read: "First of all, Japan, which is the U.S. forces' logistics, launch and sorties bases, would be blanketed with radioactive clouds if a nuclear war occur on the Korean Peninsula.
"It's a piece of cake for the North Korean army, which is putting even the United States into its scope, to strike Japan.
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"Not only those who try to harm us but their supporters will not be safe if any war breaks out."
The paper also suggested that Japan was "winnowing" a tense situation amid assertions that the Korean Peninsula was "on the brink of nuclear war".
Jong-un earlier said his country is ready for a "total war" and threatened the "final doom of the US".
He vowed to accelerate its nuclear weapons programme to “maximum pace” and test a nuclear device “at any time”.
The North's official KCNA news agency said on Tuesday: "The reckless military provocation is pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war.
"Any military provocation against the DPRK will precisely mean a total war which will lead to the final doom of the US."
It comes as the US military announced its controversial Thaad missile defence system is now operational in South Korea.
Thaad, which stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defence, was placed at a former golf course in the central county of Seongju amid protests.
Angry residents fear the system will make the area a target for attacks endangering lives.
On Monday, the US flew training drills with South Korea and Japanese air forces in another show of strength.
Two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers were deployed amid rising tensions over North Korea's pursuit of its nuclear and missile programmes in defiance of United Nations sanctions and pressure from the US.
The US air force said in a statement the bombers had flown from Guam to conduct training exercises with the South Korean and Japanese air forces.
South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun said the joint drill was conducted to "deter provocations".
Kim Jong-un's threat comes as President Trump said he was open and "honoured" to meet the North's young leader – despite mounting tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
The White House later said North Korea would need to meet many conditions before it could be contemplated.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been high for weeks, driven by concerns that the North might conduct its sixth nuclear test in defiance of pressure from the United States and Pyongyang's sole major ally, China.
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