Is North Korea preparing to
unleash WW3 with its President, Kim Jong Un, urging the military to
ready its nuclear arsenal to be fired at its enemies amid tougher
sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council?
The North Korean leader said the country’s “nuclear warheads need to be ready for use at any time,” in response to the enemies that were threatening the country’s survival, the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported.
“Under the extreme situation that the U.S. Imperialist is misusing its military influence and is pressuring other countries and people to start war and catastrophe, the only way for our people to protect sovereignty and rights to live is to strengthen the quality and quantity of nuclear power and realize the balance of power,” Kim was quoted as saying.
He was speaking at a military exercise on Thursday, when the country had test-fired “short-range projectiles” of a new multiple launch rocket system.
On Thursday, Pyongyang launched six projectiles that flew 60 to 90 miles off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.
South Korean defense officials said that the North had been testing the new multiple-rocket launcher with a range far enough to strike major American and South Korean military bases, including those in the Osan-Pyeongtaek hub 62 miles south of Seoul.
Apart from its nuclear weapons, North Korea’s multiple-rocket launchers and artillery pieces are its most-feared weapons in the South. The North is estimated to have 13,000 of them clustered on the inter-Korean border, 28 miles north of Seoul.
North Korea appeared to flexing its muscles in the wake of the toughest sanctions yet brought by the UN resolution aiming to cripple the economic factors that fuel Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The flared up tensions could result in a WW3 given the United States’s attempt to move against the North wouldn’t be taken lightly by the communist nations. China, the North’s only ally could also end up in a confrontation with NATO and its allies on the Korean crisis since it wouldn’t like to see a US invasion of the country. Russia too would likely back China against the US and the thermo-nuclear war will the possible outcome of these developments.
Meanwhile, the move by South Korea to deploy an advanced missile defense system could further escalate the tensions in the fragile Korean peninsula. Representatives of the South Korean and American armed forces on a joint task force met last Friday in Seoul to discuss the possible deployment of the US missile system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD.
The move, however, will likely escalate tensions with the Chinese and Russians since they have repeatedly warned the South against hoisting the United States missile system. The missile will threaten the sovereignty of Beijing and could trigger a war similar to the Cuban crisis faced by Americans in the Cold war era.
The North Korean leader said the country’s “nuclear warheads need to be ready for use at any time,” in response to the enemies that were threatening the country’s survival, the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported.
“Under the extreme situation that the U.S. Imperialist is misusing its military influence and is pressuring other countries and people to start war and catastrophe, the only way for our people to protect sovereignty and rights to live is to strengthen the quality and quantity of nuclear power and realize the balance of power,” Kim was quoted as saying.
He was speaking at a military exercise on Thursday, when the country had test-fired “short-range projectiles” of a new multiple launch rocket system.
On Thursday, Pyongyang launched six projectiles that flew 60 to 90 miles off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula.
South Korean defense officials said that the North had been testing the new multiple-rocket launcher with a range far enough to strike major American and South Korean military bases, including those in the Osan-Pyeongtaek hub 62 miles south of Seoul.
Apart from its nuclear weapons, North Korea’s multiple-rocket launchers and artillery pieces are its most-feared weapons in the South. The North is estimated to have 13,000 of them clustered on the inter-Korean border, 28 miles north of Seoul.
North Korea appeared to flexing its muscles in the wake of the toughest sanctions yet brought by the UN resolution aiming to cripple the economic factors that fuel Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
The flared up tensions could result in a WW3 given the United States’s attempt to move against the North wouldn’t be taken lightly by the communist nations. China, the North’s only ally could also end up in a confrontation with NATO and its allies on the Korean crisis since it wouldn’t like to see a US invasion of the country. Russia too would likely back China against the US and the thermo-nuclear war will the possible outcome of these developments.
Meanwhile, the move by South Korea to deploy an advanced missile defense system could further escalate the tensions in the fragile Korean peninsula. Representatives of the South Korean and American armed forces on a joint task force met last Friday in Seoul to discuss the possible deployment of the US missile system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD.
The move, however, will likely escalate tensions with the Chinese and Russians since they have repeatedly warned the South against hoisting the United States missile system. The missile will threaten the sovereignty of Beijing and could trigger a war similar to the Cuban crisis faced by Americans in the Cold war era.
