North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un has said that his nation will keep strengthening military power and there is no reason to believe that the US is not hostile.

The comments come as the country ramps up its missile testing activity in recent weeks while making conditional peace offers to Seoul, reviving a pattern of pressuring South Korea to get what it wants from the United States.

Nuclear negotiations between the US and N.Korea have stalled for more than two years over disagreements in exchanging the release of crippling US-led sanctions against North Korea and the North’s denuclearization steps.

There has been no reaction to the headline but markets are anxious over the deterorating relations between Washington and Pyongyang.