Report: North Korea threatens nuclear strike on White House

A senior North Korean military official on Sunday threatened to launch a nuclear strike on the White House and Pentagon, according to Agence France-Presse.

"If the US imperialists threaten our sovereignty and survival ... our troops will fire our nuclear-armed rockets at the White House and the Pentagon — the sources of all evil," Hwang Pyong-So said in a speech in Pyongyang during a military rally. 

Hwang is director of the military’s General Political Bureau.

He said North Korea had been provoked by a series of recent military exercises conducted by the United States and South Korea...