North Korea threatened to nuke the U.S. once again this week after successfully testing yet another ballistic missile on Monday. Now, officials in Hawaii are preparing for the worst…

Conservative Tribune reported that the state of Hawaii is updating it’s plans when it comes to dealing with the possibility of a nuclear war. Since Hawaii is the closest state to the Korean Peninsula, it is the most likely target of an attack.

Hawaiian officials have described the state’s plans as “formidable and critical to the survival of our 1.4 million residents and visitors in the unlikely event of a nuclear detonation.” The nuclear contingency plans were last examined in the 1980s, which indicates just how seriously Hawaiian officials are taking the threat from North Korea.

This came after Daily Mail reported that the North just claimed that its latest test missile landed just seven metres from its target in Japanese water. South Korea reacted to this by conducting a join drill with a US supersonic B-1B Lancer bomber, prompting the North’s dictator to claim the allied countries were practising dropping nuclear bombs.

Kim Jong-Un promised that his communist nation would develop more powerful weapons to defend North Korea against the United States, with the State media quoting him as saying that, “He expressed the conviction that it would make a greater leap forward in this spirit to send a bigger ‘gift package to the Yankees’ in retaliation for American military provocation.”

KCNA said that the missile that was tested yesterday was equipped with an advanced automated pre-launch sequence compared with previous versions of the “Hwasong” rockets, North Korea’s name for its Scud-class missiles. South Korean military officials said that this indicates that the North had launched a modified Scud-class missile.

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