Kim Jong-un
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The rogue state claims it lives in constant fear of a US nuke attack.

North Korea has sent a nine-page letter to the US demanding it stops the 'hostile nuclear threats' towards the rogue state and its leader.

The missive sets out what it now expects from American and is being seen by many in Washington as a direct message to new President-elect Donald Trump.

North Korea has kept pretty silent about Mr Trump's shock victory in the November 8 election but it has now laid out what it wants of the incoming US administration.

The statement, carried by the official Korea Central News Agency, claims Barack Obama's administration went out of it's way to "overthrow" Kim Jong-un and his country.

It also accused Mr Obama of "constantly heaping malicious slander and criticism on the DPRK" and said his government pursued an "aggressive and heinous 'strategic suffocation' policy".

In the memo, the North argued that in the five years since the death of its late leader Kim Jong-il, the country has engaged in an all-out confrontation with the US to cope with Washington's ever-growing hostile intent and nuclear threats.

"The anachronistic hostile policy and nuclear threat that the US has enforced with unprecedented recklessness against the DPRK (North Korea) have only provoked its just and righteous countermeasures for self-defense", the memorandum read.

This year the communist country's military has carried out two hugely controversial nuclear weapons tests and made constant 'war' threats to its neighbour South Korea and the West.

The state-run media outlet claimed that the US had attempted to scare North Korea with threats of pre-emptive nuclear attacks and constant and large-scale military manoeuvres.

It also claims US-led sanctions have deprived it of the "legitimate right to peaceful development of outer space and its buildup of self-defensive nuclear deterrence".

"The US is running amok to impose unilateral sanctions", it said, adding that its believes "the root cause of escalated tension on the Korean peninsula lies with the US hostile policy and nuclear threats against the DPRK".