North Korea warned that "dark clouds of nuclear war" are gathering over the peninsula and vowed to strengthen its atomic arsenal as it marked the anniversary of the 1950-1953 conflict.
Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the ruling communist party, accused the United States and its ally South Korea of trying to provoke another war with their pledge of a US nuclear "umbrella" over the South.
"A touch-and-go situation has been created on the Korean peninsula... with dark clouds of a nuclear war gathering as the hours tick by," it said in a lengthy commentary marking the anniversary, carried by the official news agency.
The paper said a new war could break out any time and the North would continue to strengthen its nuclear arsenal.
