The North Korean army has threatened a possible strike against US military bases in Japan, in response to the use of B-52 bombers in joint military drills with South Korea.
The threat came a day after Pyongyang condemned the B-52 flights as an "unpardonable provocation" and threatened military action if they continued.
The Pentagon confirmed that B-52s, taking off from Andersen Air Force base in Guam, had flown over South Korea as part of annual joint exercises that Pyongyang insists are a rehearsal for invasion.
"We cannot tolerate the US carrying out nuclear strike drills, setting us as targets, and advertising them as strong warning messages," a spokesman for the North's supreme army command said.
"The US should not forget that the Andersen base ... as well as naval bases at Japan's main island and Okinawa, are all within the range of our precision target assets," he said in a statement broadcast by the Korean Central News Agency.
He warned: "If the enemy threats us with nuclear weapons, we will respond with stronger nuclear attacks."
Military guard posts of South Korea (front) and North Korea (far) Military tensions on the Korean peninsula are at their highest level for years, with North Korea - angered by UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test last month - threatening a second Korean War backed by nuclear weapons.
The fresh warning came as officials in Seoul said a Chinese internet address was the source of a cyberattack on South Korean banks and broadcasters - raising suspicions the intrusion came from North Korea.
The claim follows initial investigations, although the identity of those behind the cyberattack has not yet been confirmed.
A Chinese address created the malicious code in the server of one of the banks, NongHyup, where computers crashed, according to initial analysis by the state-run Korea Communications Commission, South Korea's telecom regulator.
"We've identified that a Chinese IP is connected to the organisations affected," a spokesman said.
"There can be many inferences based on the fact that the IP address is based in China," the commission's head of network policy, Park Jae-moon said.
Computers are seen down at the main office of broadcaster YTN in Seoul "We've left open all possibilities and are trying to identify the hackers."
Wednesday's attack brought down the network servers of television broadcasters YTN, MBC and KBS as well as two major commercial banks, Shinhan Bank and NongHyup Bank.
It took the banks hours to restore operations. Damage to the servers of the TV networks was believed to be more severe, although broadcasts were not affected.
It is expected to take at least four to five days for the infected computers to recover fully.
Regulators have distributed vaccine software to government offices, banks, hospitals and other institutions to prevent more outages.
North Korean hackers have been accused of using Chinese IP addresses in the past.
A previous attack on a South Korean newspaper that the government in Seoul traced back to North Korea also used a Chinese IP address.
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