North Korea’s military has threatened to take what its called ” a physical response” to a move by the US and South Korea to deploy an advanced missile defence system.
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North Korea has threatened the US and South Korea to be making a physical response to the THAAD anti-missile system if deployed on the Korean peninsular.
North Korea’s military warned of “physical response measures from us as soon as the location and time that the invasionary tool for USA world supremacy, THAAD, will be brought into South Korea”, Reuters reports.
The forum “will allow to put an end to confrontation between compatriots in the North and South, will facilitate achieving peace and security on the Korean Peninsula”, North Korea said in an open letter.
North Korea’s military has threatened to “physically act” against an advanced anti-missile system deployed by the USA and South Korea, and make them “suffer from the nightmare extreme uneasiness and terror”. The North called the sanctions tantamount to a war declaration.
Washington said that THAAD is a purely defensive system aimed only at North Korea’s evolving threats.
US State Department Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs spokeswoman Gabrielle Price was quoted by CNN as saying: “We strongly condemn North Korea’s missile test in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions, which explicitly prohibit North Korea’s use of ballistic missile technology”. The North also test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on December 25, but that test was seen as a failure, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Governments of Russian Federation and China protested the decision, stating that the agreement to deploy the THAAD system will have a highly negative impact on global strategic stability.
“While recently the North has conducted and publicized numerous missile tests, when South Korea and USFK chose to deploy a missile defense system, North Korea is making a point to remind them of its long-range artillery, against which THAAD would not be effective”.
It was a surprise announcement, made in a situation of heightened public anxiety, after North Korea’s fourth nuclear test on January 6, and the subsequent rocket launch.
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South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-gyun warned the North not to take “rash and foolish action”. Beijing claims that the system can be used against it on concerns that the powerful X-band radar that comes with THAAD could spy on China’s military.
