'We will go to war if they choose': North Korea hits back at Trump, accuses the president of 'troublemaking' with his tweets and says they will detonate a nuke 'whenever they see fit'

North Korea's vice foreign minister blamed President Donald Trump (top right) on Friday for 'making trouble' through his 'aggressive tweets' as tensions rise over the possibility the regime will launch another nuclear weapons test. Vice Minister Han Song Ryol (bottom right) sat down for an interview with the Associated Press on the eve of the country's biggest national holiday, the 'Day of the Sun' amid increasingly bitter words between the two countries. Han accused Trump of building up a

 'vicious cycle' of tensions and warned the US against provoking North Korea militarily. He said: 'We will go to war if they choose.' His remarks come hours after a member of the Trump administration denied a report claiming the US was prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike to halt any nuclear test at the weekend. North Korea blames Trump and the U.S. for the rising tensions, according to Han, who cited US-South Korean wargames, the deployment of a US aircraft carrier to the peninsula last weekend, as well as Trump's recent tweets on Tuesday that the North is 'looking for trouble'. Pictured main, Kim Jong-un, inset, an undated photo released by state media on April 13, showing the regime's special operation forces