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The tyrant continues to march towards nuclear armageddon while Donald Trump’s “powerful armada” approaches the rogue state.

USS Carl Vinson is leading the strike group which is being dispatched in a bid to spook Pyongyang – with them expected to arrive in the Sea of Japan next week.

War talk continues to spew from the rogue state as it issued its latest chilling warning of an impeding “great war”

Meanwhile, Admiral Lord West warned North Korea and the US are heading toward "catastrophe" amid fears a strike from Trump.

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Nuclear threats from North Korea have peaked amid fears Kim is preparing a sixth nuke bomb test next week.

The US President has taken a tough line on Pyongyang after a string of missile tests – including a failed launch last Sunday.

Kim is determined to develop a nuclear weapon capable of striking the mainland US.

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North Korea’s state media wrote: “If the US provokes the DPRK even a bit, its army and people will start a great war of justice for national reunification without hesitation.

"Noting that the U.S. warmongers hysterically try to ignite a war by mobilizing nuclear strategic assets without any measure to deal with the consequences to be entailed.

"The U.S. has now gone seriously mad. It is mulling frightening the DPRK and achieving something with nuclear strategic bombers, nuclear carriers, etc.

"However, the army and people of the DPRK will never be browbeaten by such bluffing.:

Confusion initially reigned as the USS Carl Vinson strike force headed for the Indian Ocean – going further away from North Korea.

But this week the aircraft carrier and its destroyers turned North and is now due to arrive this week in the Sea of Japan.

Both China and Russia are watching nervously amid fears a flood of refugees could wash over their borders if the US strikes North Korea.

Russian tanks have reached their land border with North Korea as Putin calls for calm in the Korean Peninsula.

"What is ridiculous is that the US makes last-ditch efforts by mobilizing its vassal forces in the war drills to stifle the DPRK,” North Korean media said.

"The US seeks to occupy the DPRK by the concerted efforts of Japan and south Korea, intentionally provoking the latter and driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a war.”

South Korea and Japan are also gearing up for a conflict as war-mad Kim continues to lash out at the key US allies.