Your are taking your people into ruin - Kim Jong-un warns Trump as US prepares for War

North Korea has warned 'lunatic' Donald Trump that he is 'taking the US into ruin' and 'playing with fire' by moving combat assets to the region.

The President was called a 'hooligan' with

'war fever' as a propaganda newspaper fired the latest salvo in the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington.

The report also took aim at South Korea, accusing Seoul of stoking tensions in the region.

Pyongyang called the South's leaders 'street girls' and 'puppets', and warned that they were about 'to fall off a cliff ... together with their master'.

Trump, meanwhile, has boasted that the US is "prepared for anything" amid fears that a new war could break out.

The Pyongyang Times, a state-owned weekly newspaper, responded after the US moved the USS Ronald Reagan nuclear aircraft carrier and fighter jets to South Korea.

The reported, translated by the website KCNA watch, stated: "Dignitaries of White House, and State and Defense Departments of the US are having a hard time cooling Trump overheated with a war fever, but only the South Korean puppet forces are fanning up the lunatic fingering a nuclear button."

It warned South Korea to end its alliance with the US or face 'annihilation'.

The report added: "No wonder, such hooligan as thoughtless Trump is going on the rampage after becoming owner of White House, rendering the world restless.

"Lunatic Trump is running headlong into ruin, taking America with him, and the poor puppet forces are following him, at the peril of their lives.

North Korea's state media also accused South Korean President Moon Jae-in of actively collaborating with the US to provoke Pyongyang and leader Kim Jong-un while publicly claiming that he opposes a war, the South's Yonhap News reported.

In an interview with Fox News Trump boasted that the US is "prepared for anything" amid the North Korea nuclear crisis.

The president added: “We’ll see what happens. We are so prepared, like you wouldn’t believe."

Amid calls for all sides to back down, ex-US President Jimmy Carter has said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help diffuse the situation.

Source: New York Times