North Korea likens Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

North Korea on Tuesday likened US President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in the latest verbal attack between the two nations, amid high tensions over Pyongyang's military ambitions.

The latest attack comes a week after nuclear-armed Pyongyang called Trump a “lunatic” as tensions rose following the death of US student Otto Warmbier, who was detained for 18 months in the North and then evacuated in a coma.

Warmbier's death added further strain, with Trump slamming the "brutal regime" of the North's young leader Kim Jong-Un. 

North Korea's official state news agency KCNA reportedly slammed Trump's “America First” policy as “Nazism in the 21st century” and compared the U.S. president to Adolf Hitler, in the harshest language saying that he advocates the world domination by recourse to military means just as was the case with Hitler's concept of world occupation."

The agency said, Trump was "following Hitler's dictatorial politics" to divide others into "friends and foes" to justify "suppression".

Trump's administration is pushing for stronger sanctions against the North over its nuclear and missile programmes.

It also took aim at U.S. policy to block medical supplies - declaring it "an unethical and inhumane act, far exceeding the degree of Hitler's blockade of Leningrad"

The Trump way of thinking that the whole world may be sacrificed, just for the better living of the US, has put even its allies and stooges in a pretty fix," KCNA added.