North Korea has threatened Australia with an air strike if the country gets too friendly with the US.
In a blunt message, North Korea warned of a possible strike if the country continues in 'blindly and zealously toeing the US line', the Guardian reports.
In a report from North Korea's state news agency (KCNA), the Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was also reprimanded.
A spokesperson from KCNA said Bishop had 'spouted a string of rubbish' against North Korea, leaving the country at risk of a nuclear strike.
The report stated: "If Australia persists in following the US moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK and remains a shock brigade of the US master, this will be a suicidal act of coming within the range of the nuclear strike of the strategic force of the DPRK.
"The Australian foreign minister had better think twice about the consequences to be entailed by her reckless tongue-lashing before flattering the US.
"It is hard to expect good words from the foreign minister of such a government. But if she is the foreign minister of a country, she should speak with elementary common sense about the essence of the situation."
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Bishop spoke out this week to say that North Korea's nuclear weaponry posed a 'serious threat' to Australia and asked for help from the international community to stop the country.
The report went on to say Bishop's remarks 'can never be pardoned' as they were an 'act against peace' adding that North Korea 'entirely just steps for self-defence'.
It added Australia was shielding a hostile policy of nuclear threats and blackmail from the US to North Korea.
"It is entirely attributable to the nuclear threat escalated by the US and its anachronistic policy hostile to the DPRK that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is inching close to the brink of war in an evil cycle of increasing tensions," the report continued.
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US Vice-President Mike Pence has been on a visit to Australia, and has spent most of his time there discussing the threat of North Korea's nuclear weapon programmes.
He called North Korea and 'urgent and most dangerous' threat to the peace and security of the Asia Pacific area.
During a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnball, Pence said: "While all options are on the table, let me assure you the United States will continue to work closely with Australia, our other allies in the region and China to bring economic and diplomatic pressure to bear on the regime.
"We truly believe that, as our allies in the region and China bring that pressure to bear, there is a chance that we can achieve a historic objective of a nuclear-free Korea peninsula by peaceful means."
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North Korea's last missile test was a flop, and now many are worried that Kim Jong-un could be getting ready to carry out a fresh test.
Source: The Guardian
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