Fears Of War As North Korea To Test Nuclear Weapons Despite Trump Warning

The threat of war between the US and North Korea is edging ever closer after Kim Jong-Un said he will test nuclear weapons despite Trump warning against it.

Officials in North Korea today warned that President Donald Trump’s ‘troublemaking’ and ‘aggressive’ tweets have led to the ‘extremely tense’ situation on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korean Vice Minister Han Song Ryol said ‘we will go to war if they choose’ after reports emerged that the US is thought to be considering launching a preemptive missile strike.

The US sent a navy strike group towards the Western Pacific in a show of force, which led to North Korea responding with warnings of a nuclear attack in retaliation.

China responded to Han’s comments, with its foreign minister Wang Yi saying there would be ‘no winner’ in any war’ and that ‘dialogue is the only possible solution’.

But North Korea does not seem to be backing down, accusing the US of attacking Syria last week.

In a statement, a spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace said: ‘The US introduces into the Korean peninsula, the world’s biggest hotspot, huge nuclear strategic assets..’

‘..seriously threatening peace and security of the peninsula and pushing the situation there to the brink of a war.’

‘This has created a dangerous situation in which a thermo-nuclear war may break out any moment on the peninsula and posed serious threat to the world peace and security, to say nothing of those in Northeast Asia.’

Over the past week, Trump ordered air strikes on a Syrian air base in response to a chemical weapon attack and dropped the ‘mother of all bombs’ in Afghanistan, killing 36 ISIS fighters.

US military planes have also been conducting military drills alongside Japan in the Korean peninsula.

Trump tweeted on Tuesday: ‘North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! USA.’

Alluding to Trump’s hints, Han said: ‘As long as the nuclear threats and blackmail go on with the military exercises, we will carry forward with our national defense buildup, the core of which is the nuclear arms buildup.’

On the topic of carrying out a sixth nuclear test, he added: ‘That is something that our headquarters decides.

'At a time and at a place where the headquarters deems necessary, it will take place.'