Artillery pieces are seen being fired during a military drill at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 25, 2016.
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North Korea’s foreign minister condemned the United States on Friday for flying supersonic bombers over South Korea earlier this week and vowed his country will strengthen its nuclear capabilities in defiance of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions.
“Going nuclear-armed is the policy of our state”, he said.
Beijing has said it will work within the United Nations to formulate a necessary response to the latest nuclear test, but questions remain as to whether it is willing to agree tough enough steps to force North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons.
A message from the Korean People’s Army said the imperialist USA is guilty of pushing the situation towards an imminent nuclear war by bringing strategic nuclear bombers to the Korean peninsula, Efe news agency reported.
The planned US deployment of a THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea is not negotiable as part of efforts to agree new United Nations sanctions on North Korea after its latest nuclear test, a senior USA official said on Friday.
North Korea has tested this week a new powerful rocket that could be installed on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, ostensibly to flawless the design of a device capable of being deployed on a wide-range of ballistic missiles, has sent ripples throughout the American national security policy community, which continues to wrestle with the question of how best to deal with the issue of a nuclear-armed North Korea.
Ri called the test and other provocations a practical countermeasure against sanctions and USA hostility.
Chief Director of Strategic Planning at the Joint Chiefs of staff, Leem Ho Young, revealed a new system called the Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation (KMPR) following North Korea’s nuclear warhead test claim.
Ri claimed that B-1B bombers the US military flew over South Korea earlier this week crossed the demarcation line separating the two Koreas. Please be fully informed regarding the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, it is one of the riskiest investment forms possible.
North Korea s membership in the United Nations – the only major worldwide forum where Pyongyang has a voice – dates back 35 years to when the two Koreas were admitted simultaneously. North Korea threatened to “completely reduce Seoul to ashes” and said it is “fully ready to mercilessly strike” the United States.
Ri also defended the North Korean nuclear program as a “self-defensive” measure.
In his address, Ri acknowledged that the nuclear tests “may not be easily understood by European countries”, which he said were now “less sensitive” to security concerns decades after the end of the Cold War.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe demanded that the world find a new way to confront Pyongyang after a decade of United Nations sanctions failed to change its behavior.
