N Korea calls Japanese PM 'Asian Hitler'

North Korea has called Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe an 'Asian Hitler'.

The North said Abe intended on amassing military power under the guise of ensuring regional stability.

According to news.com.au, Abe was slammed in an editorial carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.

The attack followed commentary by the ruling party's newspaper Rodong Sinmun last month that described Abe as a 'militarist maniac' for trying to amend Tokyo's pacifist constitution, the report said.

Abe said last month that Japan's pacifist post-World War II constitution, which limits its military to self-defence, could be amended by 2020.

The KCNA editorial, entitled 'Is this the emergence of an Asian Hitler?' said Abe was fuelling fears of North Korea's missile and nuclear threats in order to justify his country's military expansion.

The editorial added that there is no difference between the fascist maniac Hitler, who waged battle against communists to justify another war, and the reckless Abe who is using confrontation with North Korea to justify Japan's new militarist ambitions.