A senior North Korean official has warned that the world should take literally its foreign

minister's warning to detonate a hydrogen bomb over Pacific Ocean. In an interview to CNN,
the official, Ri Yong Pil, said the world should not dismiss the North Korean threat as "it has
always brought its words into action."
"The foreign minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think
you should take his words literally," CNN quoted Ri Yong Pil saying.
The threat was issued last month by North Korea's foreign minister Ri Yong Ho during his
visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Ri's threat followed vitriolic outburst of his country's dictator Kim Jong-un who called US
President Donald Trump a frightened dog and a mentally deranged dotard after Trump
threatened to totally destroy North Korea while delivering his maiden UNGA speech.
While speaking at the UNGA on September 19, Trump had warned that if the United States
was forced to defend itself or its allies, it would have no choice but to totally destroy North
Korea adding that the Rocket Man was on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.
Trump invented the term Rocket Man to describe Kim Jong Un after a series of missile and
nuclear tests by North Korea under his watch.
Regular North Korean threats, its repeated missile tests and successful ICBM launch
followed by a hydrogen bomb detonation in spite of global sanctions and Donald Trump's
warnings of 'action on the scale of fire and fury against North Korea' has pushed the whole
world to debate possibilities, ranging from a nuclear war to the Third World War.
Just yesterday, following Kim Jong-un's declaration that North Korea was a "fully-fledged
nuclear power," the country had issued a warning that it was ready to strike at any moment in
its self-defense and the attack would be on an unprecedented scale.
Kim Jong-un had written an open letter addressed to different parliaments of the world to
make his proclamation warning the world that "it would be a big miscalculation and an
expression of ignorance if US President Donald Trump thought that he would bring North
Korea, a nuclear power, to its knees through nuclear war threat."
Reports have emerged that US has put its nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert to meet any
emergency, a first since the Cold War days. Trump revealed in a Fox News interview
recently, "You would be shocked to see how totally prepared we are if we need to be."
On September 3, North Korea had detonated a hydrogen bomb in its sixth and most powerful
nuclear test to date and Pyongyang had warned of more 'gift packages' for Washington which
came true when it test fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan on September
15.