Story highlights The remarks come ahead of a US-South Korea drillTrump also called a "nuclear demon"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) US President Donald Trump and his administration are "begging for nuclear war," North Korea's Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Trump is "staging an extremely dangerous nuclear gamble on the Korean peninsula," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a written statement that also calls Trump a "nuclear demon" and a "disruptor of global peace." The comments came ahead of a joint US-South Korean military drill, scheduled to begin Monday. North Korean officials made similar comments last month . Days later, Trump placed North Korea on the list of state sponsors of terrorism ; the country was removed from that list in 2008 by George W. Bush.

Source: CNN December 02, 2017 15:36 UTC