North Korea threatens attacks 'worse than 9/11' as tensions reach crisis point

NORTH Korea has pledged an attack on America that will dwarf the 9/11 attacks in a chilling warning.

The sinister socialist state said its destructive weapons were aimed at landmarks like the White House and Pentagon.

And it said that if three civilian planes could bring the country to its knees, their weapons would "wipe the country from history".

It follows a string of increasingly alarming threats from the missile-mad nation, including overt warnings it would nuke the whole US at once.

HELLISH: North Korea's state run paper printed a warning to the US

"Three civilian airplanes’ attacks from 15 years ago resulted in 3,000 deaths and brought a nightmare to life for the US," said a government run paper.

"So the outbreak of our final war will wipe the country from history, leaving no time for them to even regret or have nightmares about it.”

"Being beaten by only three civilian airplanes, the U.S. was ashamed in front of the world and has suffered incalculable psychological and economical damage."

NIGHTMARE SCENARIO: North Korea has pledged its attack will be worst than 9/11 for America

The article in DPRK today even boasted that America's terminal high altitude defence system (THAAD) would do no good against North Korean weapons.

A video showing missiles blasting a US navy plane and the White House was also published on the site. 

Just five days before it ran the chilling editorial North Korea threatened New York City with a dirty H bomb more powerful than those developed by the former Soviet Union.

The state run paper stated: “Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union.

TERROR: The paper printed this image to warn the US

"If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes."

It was accompanied by several poorly-edited images that showed the victims of the horrific 9/11 attacks when al-Qaida hijacked four passenger jets.

Two were flown into the north and south towers of the World Trade Centre causing them to collapse.

A third plunged into the Pentagon.

Almost 3,000 were killed in what has been regarded as the worst terrorist attack in modern history. 

US officials revealed that it was taking North Korea's threats very seriously.