North Korea threatens to obliterate US military bases in Japan with ‘radioactive mushroom clouds’
Kim Jong-un's regime also referenced America's devastating atomic bomb strikes on Japan during WW2 in chilling warning
NORTH Korea has threatened to destroy US military bases in Japan leaving them "under radioactive clouds" if nuclear war breaks out.
The crackpot communist country issued the warning in its state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun as tensions continue to rise on the Korean peninsula.
Dictator Kim Jong-un’s maniacal regime also referred to America’s atomic bomb strikes in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II in the chilling article.
This comes as Japan is considering whether to change its anti-war constitution, which means it cannot pre-emptively strike another country, as North Korea prepares to carry out another nuclear test.
The newspaper article warned that Japan “knows better than others how terrible the nuclear disaster is.”
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It said: “In case of a nuclear war on the peninsula, Japan - that houses logistic bases, launching bases and sortie bases of the US forces - will be put under radioactive clouds before any country.
"If Japan is truly concerned about its interests, it has to make due efforts for the peaceful settlement of the Korean peninsula issue.
"As the first country in the world that suffered A-bomb disaster, Japan knows better than others how terrible the nuclear disaster is.
"The Japanese authorities should behave with discretion, clearly understanding that it is Japan which will be affected most once a war breaks out on the peninsula."
Tensions have reached boiling point on the troubled peninsula with despot Kim carrying out a series of ballistic missile tests - all of which failed spectacularly on launch.
And with the dictator threatening to carry yet another nuclear test, US President Donald Trump has sent a military strike group, headed by aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson, to the region.
Kim has blasted Trump's "hostile" behaviour towards his regime since taking office and has vowed to continue his country's controversial nuclear programme.
In the newspaper article, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) insisted the hermit kingdom will not be bullied by US aggression.
He said: "The DPRK is fully ready to respond to any option taken by the US, and unless it withdraws its hideous hostile policy toward the DPRK and nuclear threat and blackmail, the DPRK will continue to bolster its military capabilities for self-defence and preemptive nuclear attack with the nuclear force as a pivot."
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