The 4-minute video clip, titled “Last Chance”, uses computer animation to show what looks like an intercontinental ballistic missile flying through the earth’s atmosphere before slamming into Washington, near what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial.
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Highlights include the North’s capture in 1968 of an American ship, the Pueblo, and the shooting down of an American helicopter in 1994.
Kim Tong Chol, a US citizen detained in North Korea, is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea on Friday, March 25, 2016.
The announcement comes days after North Korea sentenced USA student Otto Frederick Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel.
North Korea is not known for subtlety.
The North responded defiantly, claiming a series of key breakthroughs in its development of a long-range nuclear strike capability, and conducting its first test firing in two years of a medium-range ballistic missile.
The video is the latest verbal salvo by North Korea at Washington and Seoul over ongoing joint military drills that the North sees as rehearsal for invasion.
Bruce Klingner, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research think tank in Washington, said sanctions slow down Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs, although they may not keep the country from pursuing nuclear weapons.
Kim Dong-chul (62), who became a naturalised USA citizen in 1987 and was arrested on espionage charges in October past year, pleaded for mercy during his carefully orchestrated confession, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported.
On Wednesday, the North warned of a “miserable end” facing Ms Park, with its artillery units standing ready to turn the presidential Blue House in Seoul into a “sea of flames and ashes”.
An American detained in North Korea said he had spied against the country and asked for forgiveness at a media presentation Friday.
The worry is that Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s current tyrant, lacks the savvy and sense of reality of his forebears.
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The warning came hours after KCNA published a statement by the North’s “reconciliation council” that referred to Park as “dog-like”, “chicken-like” and a “dirty old woman” who grants sexual favours to the leaders of South Korea’s allies.
