The country's Foreign Minister warned that the North Korean army has been ordered to move from preparing for potential military response to attacks on the country - to preparing to launch their own.
Foreign Minister Lee Su-yong extended the threat to its neighbors in the south, adding that 'the Korean peninsula faces the dilemma: a thermonuclear war or peace'.
The warnings follows months of intensified weapons tests and threats of nuclear war by North Korea as a response to ongoing military drills between Washington and Seoul.
'In response to the US frenzied hysteria for unleashing a nuclear war, we have fully transferred our army from the form of military response to the form of delivering a pre-emptive strike and we state resolutely about the readiness to deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike,' North Korea's Foreign Minister Lee Su-yong said in a statement, Yonhap News reports.
'In a word, the Korean peninsula faces the dilemma: a thermonuclear war or peace,' he said.
However, this is a demand North Korea has been making for decades: The United States and South Korea must immediately suspend their annual military exercises if there is to be peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Even before the exercises began, North Korea's formidable propaganda machine had been churning out articles every day condemning the US and South Korea in the strongest terms.
State newspapers and TV channels have been displaying nuclear bomb and missile mock-ups and warning it is ready at any time to launch a pre-emptive strike against the presidential residence in South Korea or even a nuclear attack on New York.
Dailymail
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