GETTY North Korea has taunted the US over Hurricane Harvey as it threatened to bury the US under water

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Marking the state’s national Navy Day today, the Rodong Simnum, a newspaper of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, revisited an article from the launch of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in April last year. The article, titled ‘Only victory and glory would lie ahead for the armed forces of the autonomous Navy’, claimed the North Korean navy would “bury the entirety of the US under water if the US brings in the cloud of war of aggression on this soil”.

It also stated: "Cutting-edge aircraft carriers look like nothing but a fat metamorphosed animal to the eyes of the naval forces of the Korean People's Army.” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was also quoted, saying: "Now we became capable of stabbing a dagger of destruction in the back of South Korea and the US at any time we want." The vile taunt came as Hurricane Harvey has caused devastation and at least five deaths in the US.

Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic destruction Sat, September 2, 2017 Hurricane Harvey was the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005 Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 26 A U.S. Air Force pararescueman carries a young girl to safety over flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey in Houston

Now we became capable of stabbing a dagger of destruction in the back of South Korea and the US Kim Jong-un

Harvey landed on the shores of Texas on Friday as a category 4 hurricane with 130mph winds, but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. The White House has confirmed US president Donald Trump will visit the afflicted state in the first major environmental catastrophe since he came into office. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said: “The president will travel to Texas on Tuesday.

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"We are coordinating logistics with state and local officials, and once details are finalised, we will let you know. “We continue to keep all of those affected in our thoughts and prayers." The taunt also added to growing tensions between the North Korea and the US. Last week US secretary of state Rex Tilleron praised Kim Jong-un’s regime and called for peaceful negotiations leading Mr Trump to claim the dictator was “starting to respect the” the US. But Mr Tillerson’s calls were met with ballistic missile launches from Pyongyang. Mr Tillerson said: "The firing of any ballistic missile is a violation of UN Security Council resolutions.