GETTY North Korea is preparing for war by mobilising troops and military equipment

FREE now and never miss the top politics stories again. SUBSCRIBE Invalid email Sign up fornow and never miss the top politics stories again. We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights.

World War 3 fears are growing as North Korea announced it is preparing for warm, in the aftermath of yet another sabre-rattling threat. Despot Kim Jong-un has this week warned the USA and Donald Trump with “miserable extinction” in a war which will leave “no-one left”. An article in a state-run newspaper said the country was now in “full readiness” for battle after months of verbal attacks. It said: “All our service persons and people have turned out in the retaliatory war of justice.

A unique portrait series from inside North Korea Mon, October 2, 2017 North Korea: A unique portrait series from inside North Korea. Play slideshow AFP/Getty Images 1 of 7 Ryu Nam-Sok (61) poses for a portrait in a public square in Pyongyang

All striking means are on the alert North Korea newspaper

“The DPRK has already been in full readiness. All striking means are on the alert.” The newspaper, a mouthpiece for Kim’s one-party dictatorship, promised a “dreadful and horrible” war if America does not back off and lift sanctions. The propaganda rag said: “Once the Korean-style striking battle prepared for centuries for a final battle with brigandish US imperialists starts, this will be the most dreadful and horrible retaliatory war and continue till there is no one left to sign a surrender document and to cry out and till the US imperialists are removed from this planet.”

GETTY North Korea is moving soldiers in a bid to be ready for World War 3

Another article published in the rogue state’s capital city this week also threatened the USA with bloody destruction. It featured comments from the Sanctions Damage Investigation Committee, who claimed America was acting “frenzied”. READ MORE: Will the USA attack North Korea?

GETTY North Korea war: Soldiers moving along a border area in Kim's hermit state

A spokesman said: “The US, not content with abusing the mandate of the United Nationals Security Council to frame up illegal and unlawful 'sanctions resolutions' aimed at stifling the DPRK, is even putting under sanctions other countries which have economic and trade relations with the DPRK. “The sanctions moves of the US aimed at completely obliterating the state and people of the DPRK are heinous criminal acts unprecedented in all times and places in their viciousness and brutality.” READ MORE: Does North Korea have nuclear weapons?