King Jong Un Threatens Use Of Nuclear Weapons If Provoked
North Korean leader King Jong Un has said that Pyongyang will not hesitate to attack the enemies with nuclear weapons if provoked with nukes. Kim made this notable remark while congratulating the soldiers for the military’s missile bureau for their recent launching drill of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Kim said in his remark that the test demonstrated the loyalty and strong stand of the armed forces and was “a clear explanation of the offensive counteraction mode and the evolution of the nuclear strategy and doctrine of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) not to hesitate even a nuclear attack when the enemy provoke it with nukes”, KCNA reported.
Kim’s comments follow a meeting between South Korea and the United States last week in Washington in which they discussed the nuclear deterrence in the event of conflict with the North. The meeting included “nuclear and strategic planning” and the allies stated that any nuclear attack by Pyongyang on the United States and South Korea would result in the end of the North Korean regime.
Hence Kim has ordered the military’s missile bureau not to hesitate to launch a nuclear attack when the enemy provokes it with nukes, reports Korean Central News Agency on Thursday. In a separate statement Kim’s sister, Kim Yo Jong condemned the United Nations Security Council for holding a meeting over the launch of ICBM and claimed it as an exercise of the country’s right to self-defence.
The top diplomats of United States, South Korea and Japan on Wednesday issued a joint statement urging North Korea not to indulge itself in further provocation and instead to engage in “substantive dialogue without preconditions”.
The three countries have also ramped up its defence cooperation in the face of a record-breaking series of weapons tests by Pyongyang this year and on Tuesday they have activated a system to share a real-time data on North Korean missile launches.
Invoking tension in the region, the North has recently stressed that the “Korean peninsula is in a state of war by law” and that “strategic assets” deployed by Washington in the South “are the first targets of destruction”.
