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North Korea has put the world on alert with threats to turn tensions in the Korean peninsula into all out conflict by testing another nuclear weapon. The Trump administration has already warned the secretive nation’s dumpy dictator any nuclear tests would have dire consequences. And rising tensions have led China, Russia, the US and South Korea to deploy troops around the hermit kingdom. But General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis has dismissed the Kim Regime’s dramatic commitment to send a “super mighty preemptive strike” against mainland US and South Korea.

GETTY General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis has dismissed the Kim Regime’s dramatic rhetoric

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He said: “As far as North Korea's latest words are concerned, I think we've all come to hear their words repeatedly, their word has not proven honest.” His reassurances come despite claims the North is preparing a nuclear test site ahead of Military Foundation Day – another national holiday many fear Kim Jong-Un will use as an excuse to test a catastrophic weapon. North Korean observatory group 38 North wrote: “Commercial satellite imagery of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site from April 19 indicates probable trailers near the North Portal, the tunnel that North Korea appears to have been preparing for a nuclear test.”

GETTY Trump has already warned North Korea any nuclear tests would have dire consequences

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It comes as Pyongyang ramps up its rhetoric towards the US, claiming they will wipe the Western superpower “off the face of the earth”. A spokesman for the Kim regime said: “The DPRK will never remain a passive onlooker to the moves of the US to provoke a biochemical war against it but will conclude the standoff with the US, the empire of evils, by wiping it off the face of the Earth. “The US must not disregard the warning of the DPRK that its reckless military moves would lead to its most miserable final doom.

GETTY It comes as Pyongyang ramps up its rhetoric towards the US

GETTY Kim Jong-Un has threatened to 'wipe the US off the map'