The source for this technology was Pakistanas reported by The WashingtonPost in 2011 when the founder of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan, had disclosed that North Korea bribed top military officials in Islamabadto obtain access to Nuclear Technology in the late 1990’s.
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A military source told the Yonhap news agency every part of Pyongyang “will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosives shells”.
North Korea vowed to continue to strengthen its nuclear program on Sunday calling worldwide pressure for further sanctions following its fifth and biggest nuclear test “laughable”.
However, North Korea said threats of further sanctions against the country were “laughable”.
The military officials speaking to Yonhap said Pyongyang districts believed to be hidiing North Korea’s leaders would be specifically targeted in any attack, reducing the city to ashes.
After the explosion, which caused a major seismic event, United States envoy Sung Kim said they were “working very closely in the Security Council and beyond to come up with the strongest possible measure against North Korea’s latest actions”.
SOUTH Korea has devised a plan to destroy North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, through intensive bombing if the communist regime shows signs of launching a nuclear attack.
There has reportedly been rising criticism of the South Korean government as it works to isolate the country to the north, but has failed to dissuade President Kim Jong-un from further nuclear enhancements.
Military experts believe North Korea is confident their scientists could mass produce miniaturized warheads capable of reaching its Asian neighbors.
The source said the KMPR campaign will employ surface-to-surface Hyunmoo 2A, 2B and Hyunmoo 3 ballistic missiles, which have ranges of 300 km (186 miles), 500 km (310 miles) and 1,000 km (620 miles), respectively.
Kimball from the Arms Control Association said North Korea has not yet demonstrated the ability to launch a medium- or long-range missile that can re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and is still years away from having an intercontinental ballistic missile that can deliver a nuclear warhead that can hit the continental U.S.
The explosive yield of Friday’s test, a magnitude 5.3 seismic event, was estimated at 10 kilotons. The collapse of the regime could also put soldiers from South Korea and its U.S. ally on China’s border.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye strongly condemned the test, saying in a statement that it showed the “fanatic recklessness of the Kim Jong Un government as it clings to nuclear development”.
The US’s “dialogue” with China over the crisis will continue, Mr Kim said.
Pyongyang defended its right to conduct such tests in order to “protect our dignity” amid threats of “nuclear war” from Washington.
Before that, the last time such a flight had been made public was in 2013, after the North’s third nuclear test. Not only has the range of the weapons jumped significantly, but the country is working to ideal new platforms for launching them – submarines and mobile launchers – giving the North greater ability to threaten the tens of thousands of USA troops stationed throughout Asia.
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North Korea’s persistent pursuit of missiles and nuclear weapons has always been one of the most intractable foreign policy problems for USA administrations.
