North Korea is interested in testing a hydrogen bomb in the middle of the Pacific, according to reports.

The move would be a direct response to President Trump’s latest threat to destroy the rogue nation, said North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho.

Speaking to reporters in New York on Thursday night, Ri explained that leader Kim Jong Un was ultimately referring to the potential test of “the most powerful detonation of an H-bomb” when he made his “highest-level” comments earlier in the evening.

Ri did say, though, that Kim could change his mind and decide to take a different course of action, should he choose to respond.

“We have no idea about what actions could be taken as it will be ordered by leader Kim Jong Un,” Ri said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

Word of a possible detonation in the Pacific comes just weeks after the North carried out its sixth and most powerful test within its borders.

It also follows Kim’s incendiary comments about President Trump — in which he called him “mentally deranged” and referred to his UN speech on Tuesday as “the most ferocious declaration of a war in history.”

Testing a nuclear weapon beyond its borders would certainly heighten tensions between the US and North Korea.

The Hermit Kingdom already has Japan on edge after launching multiple missiles over the island nation.

With Post Wires