There’s really only one way North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un could celebrate a successful missile launch: with fireworks and a coordinated dance party, of course. According to the report when North Korea were beaten 0-7 by Portugal in the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa, a number of players were sent to work in coal mines for two years and they were not even allowed to return to their homes. Bermudez also presented commercial satellite images of facilities showing what is believed to a new submarine base under construction at Yuktaedong near the Sinpo County base in South Hamgyong Province where the recent test-launch was carried out.
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China had wanted the statement to oppose deploying “any new anti-ballistic missile stronghold in Northeast Asia with an excuse of dealing with threats of the DPRK nuclear and missile programs”.
Kim added that the effectiveness of the rocket proved the authoritarian country had “joined the front rank of the military powers fully equipped with nuclear attack capability”.
North Korea threatened Monday to make a “preemptive nuclear strike” on South Korea and the U.S.in response to the allies’ exercise which involves some 75,000 troops including about 25,000 from the us side.
However, Kim took the opportunity to make veiled threats towards the USA and its “followers”.
“I’m concerned, and I think it should be ongoing concern for everyone”, he said.
Days before, in July, it had fired several missiles as part of what it called a drill for preventive strikes against South Korean ports and airfields. The North Korean contingent bagged a total of seven medals at the event in Brazil but the eccentric dictator seems to be unimpressed by tally.
North Korea has expressed anger at United Nations Security Council discussions over a statement denouncing the country’s latest submarine-launched missile test.
About 28,500 US troops are based in South Korea and tens of thousands of more in Japan.
Jon spoke just before the Security Council concluded the discussions with a statement.
Malaysia’s U.N. Ambassador Ramlan Bin Ibrahim, the current council president, told reporters after the closed meeting that “there was a general sense of condemnation by most members of the council”.
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“Military first”, or Songun, is a facet of North Korean Chinese political ideology that dictates that the government’s first priority is to invest all its efforts into a robust military, often at the expense of basic peacetime public needs like ensuring a stable food supply or solid infrastructure. “Given North Korea’s current naval production capabilities, [deployment] would be possible around 2020”, he predicted.
