North Korea on Saturday slammed Donald Trump's "warmonger" Asia tour and warned it would only strengthen Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, state media reported.

In the first comments on Trump's visit by a North Korean official, a Pyongyang foreign ministry spokesman said the trip was a "warmonger's visit for confrontation to rid the DPRK of its self-defensive nuclear deterrence", according to the state-run KCNA news agency