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The despot and his hermit state followed up this chilling warning by mocking Donald Trump, telling the president: “Don’t dream silly dream!” North Korea has hit out at America as tension continues to rise on the Korean peninsula amid an ever-tightening spiral of threats and counter-threats. And Pyongyang's latest threat could be the country's most explosive yet, as the state labelled the USA as a “den of evils” and threatened to destroy the country.

GETTY North Korea has threatened to wipe the USA 'off the face of the earth'

In a Pyongyang newspaper article, seen by Express.co.uk, North Korea accused America of spying on the rogue East Asian nation. The propaganda rag, which acts as a mouthpiece for Kim’s bloody leadership, said America should be punished for its “sly trick” of using “spies” to infiltrate North Korea. READ MORE: Will the USA go to war with North Korea?

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It said Mr Trump should be punished for this, before mocking the US president with a stinging jibe. The piece said: “The US is, indeed, a den of evils that should be wiped off the face of the earth as early as possible as it is openly pursuing the policy of state-sponsored terrorism by unhesitatingly resorting to hideous provocation, far from learning a lesson from the failed DPRK policy of its predecessors.

GETTY Kim Jong-un has mocked Donald Trump in his latest saber-rattling statement

“The US should understand that its desperate intelligence operation against the DPRK will only bring destruction to it. “The foolhardy operations against the supreme leadership of the DPRK and its strategic facilities only bring to light the wretched plight of the US which has sustained disgraceful defeats only in the showdown with the DPRK.”

GETTY Kim Jong-un said America was a 'den of evils' and full of 'spies'

Don't dream silly dream! North Korea newspaper

And it insulted Mr Trump by claiming he will never intimidate the hermit state, mockingly telling him: “Don’t dream silly dream!” READ MORE: Does North Korea have nuclear weapons?