The B-1B bombers took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, a US territory, before conducting low-level flights in the vicinity of Osan Air Base near Seoul, 75 miles south of the border with North Korea.A US Air Force B-1B bomber flies over Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, September 13, 2016.
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CARACAS, Venezuela-North Korea’s foreign minister said on Thursday the country was ready to launch another attack against the “provocations” of the United States, whose bombers this week flew over South Korea in a show of solidarity with its ally after Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test.
This follows the nuclear weapons test conducted by the DPRK on January 6, 2016 and subsequent missile launches in flagrant violation of the DPRK’s obligations under various UN Security Council resolutions.
Sources added that the nation mastered mounting the weapon on a ballistic missile.
“The standardisation of the nuclear warhead will enable to produce at will and as many as it wants a variety of smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear warheads of higher strike power”, said Kim Ki Nam, North Korea’s vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).
“We join the vast majority of UN Member States and the UN Secretary-General in calling for urgent action to eradicate all nuclear weapons, once and for all”, said Monyela.
The Guardian quoted Jong Won-sop’s statement, professor at the University of National Economy, stating “the enemies can no longer deny the strategic positiom of our country as a nuclear weapon state”.
South Korea said yesterday the North is ready to conduct an additional nuclear test at any time. “They also affirmed both governments’ determination to uphold the principle of freedom of navigation, and to continue to conduct maritime operations in accordance with worldwide law”.
The fifth nuke test received condemnation worldwide.
“I smacked my head on the bathroom floor”, a bloodied and bandaged President Barack Obama says, “as I was so shocked by North Korea’s hydrogen bomb detonation!”
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Washington and Seoul also have called on the U.N. Security Council to take swift action to implement new sanctions against the North following its September 9 underground blast.
