North Korea’s ambassador to the U.N. issued a stark warning that the Korean Peninsula has reached a “hair-trigger situation with imminent danger of nuclear war breakout,” delivering a speech at the 78th U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

Kim Song also slammed recent U.S.-ROK military drills, while calling the allies’ efforts to bolster trilateral ties with Japan an attempt to create an “Asian version of NATO” that introduces a “‘new cold war’ structure to Northeast Asia.”