CHEEKY North Korea has sent a nine-page letter to the US demanding it stops the 'hostile nuclear threats' towards the rogue state and its despotic leader.

The missive sets out what it now expects from American and is being seen by many in Washington as a direct message to new President-elect Donald Trump.

North Korea has kept pretty silent about Mr Trump's shock victory in the November 8 election but it has now laid out what it wants of the incoming US administration.

The statement, carried by the official Korea Central News Agency, claims Barack Obama's administration went out of it's way to "overthrow" Kim Jong-un and his country.

It also accused Mr Obama of "constantly heaping malicious slander and criticism on the DPRK" and said his government pursued an "aggressive and heinous 'strategic suffocation' policy".