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While the communist nation has reportedly been moving several missiles repeatedly on its east coast today in an apparent attempt to interfere with intelligence monitoring, the Pentagon told the North it is "very close to a dangerous line."

Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, has ramped up its rhetoric in response to the rising tensions, declaring "it is utterly silly for the south Korean puppets to want to evade from a shower of our nuclear strike under the nuclear umbrella of their U.S. master."

In a convuluted and fiery rant, the newspaper said the North's nuclear shower "will break the U.S. nuclear umbrella so mercilessly that the warmongers cannot even repent of anything."

Contrary to much public speculation, the North said the recent escalation in tensions "is not a mere saber-rattling, but a prelude to war."



"The U.S., noisily advertising about its commitment to provision of nuclear umbrella, is stuffing its latest nuclear war equipment into south Korea," it states.



"Unaware of what a miserable fate is befalling on them, the south Korean puppets are running headlong into an adventure of attacking the DPRK on a nuke war chariot of the U.S.



"Now, the U.S. cannot afford to take care of its stooges.



"Backed by outside forces, they are hell-bent on igniting a nuclear war against the DPRK."

The warning was the latest in a line of similarly-themed rants against the US, with videos depicting New York in flames after an apparent missile attack and US hostages in the South also issuing disturbing messages in a war of propaganda.