North Korea will turn US military bases in the region into a “sea of fire” if war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, North Korean media has quoted a communist officer as saying today.

North Korea today cut off the only regular military contact with the US-led United Nations Command that monitors the Korean War armistice, accusing America of trying to attack the communist state.

North Korea today boasted that it would win its nuclear stand-off with the United States because of its “ultra hard-line” military stance.