NORTH KOREA has told Donald Trump he is a “an old lunatic” who is “accelerating the doom” of his nation as the hermit kingdom tinkers on the edge of World War 3 with the United States.
Kim Jong-un’s regime sent a chilling warning shot to the US President telling him “the US mainland will be reduced to ashes”.
The secretive state said President Trump’s “rude remarks” will “accelerate the doom of the evil empire”.
The warning, pumped out by the communist state's propaganda machine, is the latest escalation by North Korea in threats of nuclear war against the US.
It comes after two Air Force supersonic heavy bombers flew over the Korean peninsula in a show of force against Pyongyang on Tuesday night.
Pyongyang’s mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said: “Trump, an old lunatic, hurled a stream of abuses at the DPRK, which seemed to be suggestive of an extreme option against it
"He recently bluffed, talking about "calm before a storm" when meeting with military brass hats of the U.S.
"Some days later, he made reckless remarks that the past DPRK-US dialogue proved ineffective and that only one thing would prove effective."
Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the North Korea’s Workers Party, also attacked South Korea for "toeing the US line".
It read: "Trump is well advised to clearly understand that his rude remarks will not deter somebody but make the U.S. society all the more uneasy and accelerate the doom of the evil empire.
"If the US imperialists opt for military provocation against the DPRK, the US mainland will be reduced to ashes by the merciless nuclear retaliatory strike and the south Korean puppet forces, too, will have to pay dearly for toeing the US line."
US President Trump is currently embroiled in an ongoing exchange of threats and insults with Pyongyang.
The American leader has repeatedly hinted at conflict, which could spark World War 3, and recent tweets suggest he is seriously considering using military action to end the North Korea crisis.
Last weekend he tweeted: "Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid hasn't worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!"
This was followed on Monday by: "Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing. Policy didn't work!"