One ruler country – North Korea is preparing to fight a nuclear war against the United States of America and its allies in the Korean Peninsula. The divided peninsula remains technically at war after the 1950-53 conflict ended with an armistice instead of a peace treaty.
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The flooding comes as North Korea faces global anger for conducting its fifth nuclear test. Since then, Pyongyang has increased both its ballistic missile and nuclear bomb development, despite the increasing sanctions.
On Friday, North Korea conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear weapons test so far and claimed that the test showed it had a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on a ballistic missile, which increases fears for USA allies in the region and threatens USA bases in South Korea, Japan and Guam.
The statement also claimed that North Korea’s “standardization” of this warhead design will allow production, “at will”, of “smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power”.
Stephen Nagy, an associate professor of politics at Tokyo’s International Christian University, believes that no matter the provocation, it will be hard to convince the majority of people in South Korea of the need to deploy atomic weapons.
Meanwhile, North Korea through its state-run news agency KCNA also said USA was the “very one” compelling the isolated country to develop nuclear warheads.
The U.S. official met with his South Korean counterpart Kim Hong-kyun, special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs at Seoul’s foreign ministry, to discuss how to address the DPRK’s fifth nuclear test that was conducted on September 9.
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The bombers flew close to North Korea as a top U.S. envoy said that China must help in closing the loopholes in the sanctions after the nuclear test conducted by Pyongyang.
The US has flown two supersonic B-1B Lancer strategic bombers over South Korea in a show of force, just days after North Korea carried out its fifth nuclear test.
The UN Security council is scrambling to come up with new penalties, but five sets of UN sanctions since it first tested a nuclear device in 2006 have failed to deter the North.
The US special envoy on North Korea, said that while Washington was open to dialogue they would seek a new United Nations resolution on sanctions for Pyongyang.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said on Saturday that there should be more “creative” ways of responding to Pyongyang’s activities than simply sanctions, adding that ways could be found to resume the six-party talks while condemning the DPRK’s nuclear test.
Park has become increasingly critical of North Korea since the test on Friday, saying that its leader, Kim Jong Un, was guilty of “fanatical recklessness” and that “his mental condition should be considered out of control”.
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