North Korea's vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol Friday has told news agency Associated Press that it will conduct nuclear test whenever supreme headquarters sees fit.
Tension is rising amid concerns the North may conduct a sixth nuclear weapons test in defiance of U.S. sanctions and warnings from the US.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang, Vice Minister Han Song Ryol also said Pyongyang won't "keep its arms crossed" in the face of a pre-emptive strike by the U.S.
"We will go to war if they choose". "With the regime it's not a matter of if, it's when".
President Donald Trump upped the ante in a war of words with Pyongyang in a tweet on Tuesday that said the North is "looking for trouble". The ominous comments came the same day the U.S. military dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb it possesses on Afghanistan, targeting a complex used by the Islamic State group.
Han said that Trump's "aggressive" tweets were "making trouble", according to the report. And a United States aircraft carrier and its naval strike group has been diverted to the Korean peninsula. He added that the U.S. will resolve North Korea's problem alone if China does not help rein in Pyongyang's nuclear aspirations. It was a main topic of discussion when Trump met then president Barack Obama shortly after the November election, with Trump being warned he may face a hard choice early in his presidency.
North Korea's official name is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Just two days after North Korea threatened a nuclear strike against the United States and a few hours after areport that has since been disputed by the Pentagon stating that the us was planning a pre-emptive strike against North Korea, a North Korean official has said that the situation is now in a "vicious cycle", placing the blame on President Trump's inability to put down his phone and stop fucking tweeting. "So that's why. It's not the DPRK but the U.S. and Trump that makes trouble", Mr Han said.
North Korea marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of the state founder Kim Il Sung on Saturday and in 2012 launched a long-range rocket carrying a satellite to mark the date.
"I think that was nothing more than lip service during the campaign to make himself more popular", Han said.
The adviser also said Mr Pence expected to talk about the "belligerence" of North Korea at stops in Tokyo, Jakarta and in Sydney.
The stick was accompanied by a carrot, with Trump noting "I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the United States will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!"
Granted, as Reuters wryly points out "North Korea regularly threatens to destroy the United States and South Korea". With the exception of Indonesia, the United States has a treaty obligation to come to the defense of all those countries - an obligation Trump has sometimes appeared to call into question. "We are fully committed to our security alliances, especially in the face of our evolving security challenges, as we've seen the nuclear threat of North Korea".
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