KR North Korea Threatens U.S.: Nuclear Attack ‘The Only Option Left’

North Korea on Friday threatened to employ nuclear weapons against the United States, saying such drastic action represents the only remaining way to counter the threat it perceives from the Trump administration.
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"In order to eliminate the nuclear threats from the U.S., the DPRK government has made all possible efforts either through dialogue or in resort to the international law, but all ended in a vain effort," North Korean state news wrote in an essay Friday morning about future prospects for peace, using an abbreviation for the country's official name. "The only option left was to counter nuke with nuke."
The troubling language from its state news service follows a steady escalation in North Korean provocations in recent weeks, including blowing up the liaison office earlier this month that it had established with South Korea two years ago. Analysts saw the move as part of an attempt by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to reassert his control after disappearing for two weeks earlier this year.
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The 5,000-word article on Friday documents the history of North Korea's grievances with the U.S., South Korea and its allies and comes a day after all of these countries marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. But it draws particular attention to the Trump administration, which raised international expectations for a breakthrough with the Hermit Kingdom following a series of high-profile summits between the two leaders in 2017 and 2018.
That progress stalled over disagreements regarding international sanctions against North Korea. And subsequent pledges from President Donald Trump to cancel U.S. military exercises with South Korea – which both Kim and Trump labeled "war games" – have only further provoked North Korean aggression after the U.S. military continued with a pared down version of the drills late last year and this spring.
"No other nation on this planet than the Korean nation has so directly suffered from nuclear threats for so long," North Korea's state news said in the article on Friday. "To our people, nuclear threat is not at all an abstract concept but actual and concrete experience."
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The tone of the article also follows new, harsh rhetoric from Kim's sister, Kim Yo Jong, a hardliner who has become the most powerful woman in North Korea and reportedly among the most influential officials within her brother's inner circle. She reportedly ordered the demolition of the liaison office, and labeled South Korea as an "enemy."
North Korea under Kim has accelerated its nuclear weapons testing, both for warheads and the ballistic missiles that would deliver them. And analysts believe the country increasingly sees those technologies as its only way to "level the playing field" given America's immense military arsenal.

"Demanding North Korea surrender its nuclear weapons first before it gets any sort of benefit is just plain naive," says Harry Kazianis, senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest. "If you want to get North Korea to come to the bargaining table Washington must offer an action for action approach where both sides get benefits simultaneously, tackling the smallest issues first. That is the only way we will ever get to stability on the Korean Peninsula.
"Anything else guarantees we go from crisis to crisis for decades to come."

https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2020-06-26/north-korea-threatens-us-with-nuclear-attack

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

If they vaporize the west coast, the only US response should be a fruit basket.

EDIT: Also, who had "nuclear war" on their 2020 bingo card?

 

[HumanHive]

Stop blueballing us and do it.

 

[frozenrunner]

So what are they distracting from by doing this now?

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Talk is as cheap as your sister, Kimmy boy.

 

[aricebowl]

I feel like this has become a yearly tradition for north Korea at this point. Also they ain’t going do shit.

 

[Meat Target]

So what are they distracting from by doing this now?

Assuming we don't go Kablooie between now and then, the presstitutes will soon be singing "YASS SLAY QUEEN" to Kim Yo Jong. I'm calling it now.

 

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it.

 

[axfaxf]

well, time for Rocket Man to collect another gibsmedat. no coronarea is best Korea.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

So what are they distracting from by doing this now?

Lots of things: Corona-chan, riots, protests, etc.... we have lots of choices.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

The left is finally getting their wish. Another war.


Seriously though, what pointless posturing. Leys say they do hit the West Coast, not only would that be a huge favor to the rest of America but no way they would win, would the kim Dynasty stay in power in the aftermath.

I know there's a cult of personality for rocketboy's family but surely the upper echelon isn't stupid enough to believe in it?

 

[Meat Target]

Do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it do it.

I understand because of the shitshow going on here, but be careful what you wish for.

The left is finally getting their wish. Another war.


Seriously though, what pointless posturing. Leys say they do hit the West Coast, not only would that be a huge favor to the rest of America but no way they would win, would the kim Dynasty stay in power in the aftermath.

I know there's a cult of personality for rocketboy's family but surely the upper echelon isn't stupid enough to believe in it?

Norks tend to start talking shit around the 4th of July as a propaganda tactic. But IIRC they can hit pretty much anywhere in CONUS now. Trump should take it seriously, but not give the go code yet.

 

[los pepes]

They won't do shit... but if they decided to take out a few blue cities I'm sure the rest of the country would be in shambles.

 

[No Exit]

So what are they distracting from by doing this now?

Well the riots may be backfiring on whatever was planned before so they're just falling back on the classic American distraction; war with some small irrelevant country.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

If KJ Jr. hoses Twtiter HQ, does that basically spell the doom of Kiwifarms?

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

Remember that time we nuked North Korea?

I don't.

 

[Happy Fish]

You know they could make best friends with the US if they aimed it toward China instead.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

The left is finally getting their wish. Another war.


Seriously though, what pointless posturing. Leys say they do hit the West Coast, not only would that be a huge favor to the rest of America but no way they would win, would the kim Dynasty stay in power in the aftermath.

I know there's a cult of personality for rocketboy's family but surely the upper echelon isn't stupid enough to believe in it?

They would never go for US mainland though.
Way more likely would be a strike against bases in Okinawa or Guam, or major cities in South Korea or Japan.
A strike against Okinawa would be devastating for the US armed forces in Asia, it would severely cripple their abilities to act in Asia, might even lead to a domino effect of China doing something stupid in regards to Taiwan, too, if they think they can get away with it, due to a power vacuum in Asia.

Not like any of this is happening. Kim is just doing the annual song and dance to demand more free shit from the West. Or it's mainly meant to impress people inside his little kingdom. Unless they are really fucking desperate, they are not going to do anything funny, cause the retaliation would make WW2 look like a walk in the park. Invading North Korea the conventional way would be next to impossible and cause a shitton of casualties for the invader, so the best course of action is to simply vaporize any military base and major city and then wait for the inevitable unconditional surrender, delivered by a guy riding a donkey, cause that's going to be the most sophisticated technology that is going to be left, once the USA is done.

 

[Hot Dog]

That time of year again, huh?

 

[Banditotron]

There is no way this could make things worse than they are. Give us your best shot.