The threat is just the latest in a string of threats from the country.
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Kim also told the military to carry out more nuclear tests “to estimate the destructive power of the newly produced nuclear warheads and other tests to bolster up the nuclear attack capability”, the agency said.
The United Nations human rights investigator called on Monday for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and senior officials to be prosecuted for committing crimes against humanity in the isolated authoritarian country.
According to translations by the Washington Post, DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Today reported that the hydrogen bomb North Korea has in its arsenal is “much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union”, and that if the H-bomb was “mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile and [fell] on Manhattan in New York City”, the city and its residents would burn to ashes.
“If one believes in the US guarantees of defending South Korea and Japan with nuclear weapons if necessary, then North Korea’s ability to use its nuclear weapons (of whatever range), without facing massive destruction, remain incredible”, Dewey said in an email exchange with The Korea Herald.
“With his execution, North Korea lost virtually the only person there who could have helped the country introduce reform and openness”, Ra said during a recent interview.
China, Pyongyang’s ally, took a more conciliatory tone, saying human rights issues should not be politicized and calling for a comprehensive approach to dealing with North Korea.
Ambassador Robert King, U.S. envoy on North Korea, denounced the “egregious human rights violations committed by the DPRK” and said that the United States would work with other countries to “seek ways to advance accountability for those most responsible”.
“It does not look like US devices, to be sure, but it is hard to know if aspects of the model are truly implausible or simply that North Korean nuclear weapons look different than their Soviet and American cousins”, he said. North Korea Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong, in a speech to the Geneva forum on March 1, said it would boycott any session that examined its record and would “never, ever” be bound by any resolutions.
“Iran has likely exceeded North Korea’s ability to develop, test and build ballistic missiles”.
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KCNA/REUTERS North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the ballistic rocket launch drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army at an unknown location.
