DERANGED dictator Kim Jong-un has warned that he is ready for a fight, vowing to build more nukes.
In a defiant message to Donald Trump, the nutty North Korean leader declared that he was prepared for “peaceful coexistence or eternal confrontation” – but the choice is up to Washington.
Pyongyang is prepared to hit back, he said, claiming the rogue nation had “more than sufficient means and methods” to do so.
Kim promised to bolster his stocks of weapons, including submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
He said: “We will focus on projects to increase the number of nuclear weapons and expand nuclear operational means.”
North Korea has consistently defied sanctions to develop powerful nukes, including experimenting with outlawed intercontinental missiles.
The remarks came as Kim flexed North Korea’s military might by parading 14,000 troops through Pyongyang, as fighter jets roared overhead.
Yet the march lacked the leader’s most menacing weapons, some of which he flaunted last week, when crazed Kim was caught cackling on camera as he rolled nuke launchers through the hermit state’s capital.
At his recent speech at the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Kim said that the relationship between North Korea and the US depended on letting him keep his stash of nukes.
He said that if Washington “respects our present [nuclear] position… and withdraws its hostile policy… there is no reason why we cannot get along.”
Kim added that future relations between the two countries “depend entirely on the US attitude”.
The North Korean leader was squaring up to the US to let them know that he couldn’t take him out like he did Nicolas Maduro, or threaten to bomb his country like he did to the Ayatollah, according to Leif-Eric Easley, an international studies professor at Seoul’s Ewha Womans University.
She said: “The intended message from the military parade was that Pyongyang’s weapons and willingness to use them mean what has been done to Venezuela and Iran can’t be done to North Korea.”
Any hopes of the dictator getting along with his southern neighbour were dashed, however, as he branded South Korea the “most hostile entity”.
Kim appeared alongside Kim Ju-ae, his teen daughter who insiders warn is being bred as a bloodthirsty successor – after watching her dictator dad execute and beat up generals who displease him.
Ju-ae, thought to be 13 or 14, is already advising her despot dad on policy, according to South Korean spies.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service told lawmakers that Ju-ae has been clearly “designated as a successor” as her tyrant dad pushes to keep the family in power for a fourth generation.
The spy agency came to the conclusion that she will be announced soon “taking into account a range of circumstances, including her increasingly prominent public presence at official events”, lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun told reporters.
She stepped onto the international stage for the first time last year, when she joined the North Korean leader for a military parade in Beijing.
Last week, Kim was spotted parading his to-be-tyrant teen daughter around town, giggling at puppies and browsing electric guitars.
