NORTH KOREA today directly warned Britain it is “prepared” to launch a nuclear strike
Just hours after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn vowed to scrap the country’s nuclear weapons.
By GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL REPORTER
18:48, Wed, Sep 30, 2015 | UPDATED: 20:11, Wed, Sep 30, 2015
Speaking in London this afternoon, the rogue state’s ambassador to Britain claimed his country is ready to “cope with a nuclear world and a nuclear war“.
Admitting that North Korea and South Korea stood on “the brink of war” earlier this year, Hyon Hak-bong cautioned that “distrust” between the two countries is “growing serious” and increasing the risk of conflict breaking out.
The representative of the secretive state’s dictator Kim Jong-un spoke to an audience at international affairs think tank Chatham House.
He said: “With 70 years of division, the Korean peninsula is forced to stand on the horns of dilemma of peace and nuclear disaster.
“The Korean peninsula is at the crossroads of reunification or permanent division.”
Mr Hak-bong railed against US interference in peace efforts between the North’s capital Pyongyang and Seoul in the South, especially their collaboration in regular war games with his country’s hated neighbours.
He also warned that any new conflict in the region would be far more destructive than the Korean War in the early 1950s, which saw the US and Britain back the South.
Seoul and Pyongyang remain technically in a state of war since the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.
The ambassador, referring to North Korea as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said: “It is high time the US must realise provocative war moves bring much more loss than profit.
“Sixty years ago during the Korean War the DPRK stood against the US with rifles but today it has full capability to deter the latest nuclear threat with nuclear power.
“It is a new reality that the DPRK is prepared to counter any kind of war chosen by the US.
“Conventional war by conventional war and nuclear war by nuclear war.”
Nuclear warheads with their explosive power tens of times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima will be flying across the Pacific Ocean.
Earlier this year, tensions between North and South Korea escalated to their highest level in years and included an exchange of artillery fire.
Both nations were pushed towards conflict after South Korean soldiers were wounded in a landmine explosion.
A frenetic two days of talks, which Mr Hak-bong revealed took place with “contact at the highest level”, eventually saw the two sides reach an agreement.
But Mr Hak-bong claimed his country is “fully determined to face a new war” and that Pyongyang “is not afraid” of conflict.
The ambassador also warned that any new armed confrontation between North and South Korea could spark a third world war between global powers.
He said: “If a war breaks out, its calamity and destructiveness will be totally different to that of the 1950s.
“The range of the war will not only be limited to boundaries of the Korean peninsula.
“Nuclear warheads with their explosive power tens of times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima will be flying across the Pacific Ocean.”
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