GETTY North Korea has warned the peninsula is heading towards 'nuclear war' with the USA

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North Korea said Donald Trump wanted war and warned the USA would face a “terrible disaster” unless they backed off. They said America is preparing for war after the Winter Olympics in “late March or early April” and urged Washington to take the sensible option. The threats were issued in the Pyongyang Times, a propaganda newspaper based in the capital of Kim Jong-un’s hermit state. The paper, which is essentially a mouthpiece for the rogue state, published an opinion piece condemning Donald Trump’s threat’s of a “bloody nose” strike on North Korea.

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Mr Trump has repeatedly threatened to attack North Korea and deliver “fire and fury” if Kim threatened the US or its allies. And last month rumours began spreading Washington was considering a pre-emptive “bloody nose” attack on North Korea. Yesterday the Pyongyang Time’s wrote: “A ‘bloody nose operation’ which is being pushed by the Trump clan is evoking fierce controversy in the international community as well as in the US.

“This is an issue that cannot be overlooked.” They said America was not just considering a small attack military facilities but an all-out nuclear attack. The piece said: “The US is speeding up preparations for a nuclear war in the peninsula.

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“Most recently, the US military has taken threatening actions. It arranged a drill to dispatch troops and equipment and a parachute drill in the mainland in simulation of contingency in the Korean peninsula. “Such moves are a revelation of the US’ bid to achieve its impure goal by force of arms and are nothing more than the desperate wriggling of the Trump clan who have been driven into a bay as they have sustained a crushing defeat in the nuclear showdown with the DPRK.” The newspaper warned America any such move would be seen as a “deliberate act of provocation” and would be met with “disaster”.

GETTY Last year North Korea launched several controversial missile tests in a brazen show of force