US SHOW OF FORCE: N’Korea warns that nuclear war may breakout anytime

Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un has warned that the situation in the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment”.

The comments were made by North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador Kim In-ryong while he was addressing the UN General Assembly’s disarmament committee on Monday.

He said North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to “such an extreme and direct nuclear threat” from the United States since the 1970s pointing out that his country has the right to develop nuclear weapons.

North Korea’s UN ambassador pointed to large scale military exercises year-in-year-out using “nuclear assets” and said what is more dangerous is what he called a US plan to stage a “secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership”.

This year, Kim said, North Korea completed its “state nuclear force and thus became the full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets”.

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“The entire US mainland is within our firing range and if the US dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe,” he warned.

About a week ago, the US military flew two strategic bombers over the Korean peninsula in an obvious show of force over the continued missile activities of North Korea.

According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff in a statement on Wednesday, the two U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers were joined by two F-15K fighters from the South Korean military after leaving their base in Guam.

The statement by South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff also revealed that the two bombers carried out air-to-ground missile drills in waters off the east coast of South Korea, then flew over the South to waters between it and China to repeat the drill.

 

 

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