North Korea has threatened to lay waste to Washington with a submarine-launched nuclear missile in a menacing propaganda video.
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The four-minute computer-animated video, uploaded to the YouTube channel of North Korean website D.P.R.K. Today, came with a sinister message to “American imperialists” not to incense Pyongyang.
North Korea has been pushing to acquire submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) capability which would take its nuclear strike threat to a new level, allowing deployment far beyond the Korean peninsula and the potential to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.
Watch the full video below.
The U.S. imposed sanctions on North Korea earlier this month in retaliation for the country’s most recent tests of a nuclear device and a long-range rocket. North Korea released one in 2013 that showed Lower Manhattan being bombed, and another soon afterward that showed President Obama and USA troops in flames.
The scenes are meant to show when North Korea captured an American ship, Pueblo, in 1968, and when they shot down an American helicopter in 1994, the New York Times reported.
The video released Saturday is not the first of its kind.
Outside information is strictly controlled in North Korea and ordinary people there often use USB sticks or other portable memory drives to share foreign media.
North Korea’s labor union on Sunday vehemently denounced the United States and South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye for carrying out military drills targeting key facilities and the leadership of the communist country.
The heightened tensions come as the US and South Korean militaries conduct their biggest joint drills ever. He said his two daughters lived in NY and he had siblings in South Korea, it said.
The hermit country of the North is thought to have long range artillery capable of striking Seoul at a moment’s notice, and the new threat said the South is “just a click away”, according to ABC News.
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There were few signs Saturday of the heightened tensions in Pyongyang, where residents went about their daily routines as usual.
