Kim vows not to talk to Trump until he has sufficient strike capability

Kim claims the US are pushing him into a world war

Top diplomats in the US and Japan agreed on Tuesday to continue to use economic pressure against trigger-happy Kim Jong-un in an attempt to get his rogue nuclear state to sit down at the negotiating table.

NORTH Korea will negotiate with Donald Trump but only when it has developed a nuclear missile which can hit America's east coast.

An anonymous official from the rogue state has said talks are off the table until Kim Jong-un can “counter” US aggression with a nuke to strike urban centres like Washington DC and New York City.

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Kim Jong-un is working on nukes to hit the US's east coast

"Before we can engage in diplomacy with the Trump administration, we want to send a clear message that the DPRK has a reliable defensive and offensive capability to counter any aggression from the United States," the official reportedly told CNN on Tuesday.

The official added that an above-ground nuclear detonation- which is feared will take place over the Pacific -  would be part of that "message".

North Korea has also hit at reports President Trump is planning to strengthen his military's nuclear might.

A state-authorised editorial from KCNA reads: "The US is the only nuclear war criminal as it developed nuclear weapons for the first time in the world and inflicted untold nuclear disaster upon humankind with nukes.

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New York is in Kim Jong-un's sights

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The White House in Washington DC would be a possible target

"The US is an empire of evil that should have been eliminated from the earth long ago after being given severe punishment of the international community for its thrice-cursed crimes such as gravely infringing on global peace and security.

"The US moves to dominate the world by force of nukes have reached their height under the reign of old lunatic Trump.

"This is a revelation of the US-style brigandish logic that all the countries of the world should live like slaves before its nuclear sticks or die."

"We must, however, with our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere, be prepared for the worst should diplomacy fail," said US Undersecretary of State John Sullivan in a Tuesday joint press conference with Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama.

Potty Kim Jong-un warned this week's America's joint air and sea exercises with Japan and South Korea have hardened his beliefs that the US and its allies "should be tamed with fire."

In a statement published through its state media, Pyongyang said the military drills "lets us take our hand closer to the 'trigger' for taking the toughest countermeasure".