11-02-17

CONFIRMED: US admit ‘Kim is going to do it’ NORTH Korea’s threat to explode a H-bomb over the Pacific in an unprecedented show of force is being taken seriously, the US has admitted.

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North Korea’s dreaded Juche Bird nuke missile. Pyongyang will not hesitate to strike South Korea if Washington launches an attack on its territory, a former North Korean diplomat and defector from the state’s regime has warned.

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North Korea Won’t Think Twice About ‘Pressing Button’ if U.S. Strikes, Defector Warns

While the US has not ruled out a military option against North Korea amid heightened tensions in the peninsula, one of the highest-ranking North Korean defectors, Thae Yong-ho, has said that a military scenario would prompt Pyongyang to direct its fire at its southern neighbors.

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North Korea’s dreaded Juche Bird nuke missile CONFIRMED: US admit ‘Kim is going to do it’

NORTH Korea’s threat to explode a H-bomb over the Pacific in an unprecedented show of force is being taken seriously, the US has admitted. 

Kim Jong-un is feared to be on the verge of launching the dreaded “Juche Bird” missile – a live nuclear warhead strapped to an ICBM.

US officials now have said they believe the threats to launch should be taken seriously as tensions rage between Pyongyang and Washington.

North Korea suffered a disaster at its underground nuclear base, it emerged yesterday.

And there are now fears Kim may have no choice but to fire the Juche Bird.

Pyongyang’s top diplomats announced plans for test after a fiery clash with US President Donald Trump at the UN – and followed it up with a promise it should be taken “literally”. 

“I would fully expect if he‘s telling us he’ll do it, he’s going to”

US military official

US officials believe North Korea’s bluster about the test is a way to reduce the chance of military action when they carry it out.

The Pentagon is now closely monitoring the rogue state amid fears of an imminent launch.

Back in 2006, Kim’s dad Kim Jong-il announced he was planning to detonate the nation’s first nuclear bomb the week before. 

“I would fully expect if he‘s telling us he’ll do it, he’s going to,” an unnamed US official said, reports Defense News.

The official was briefing reporters who were travelling with the US’s top commander General Joseph Dunford.

Kim’s missile would fly from the nation’s eastern coast – hurtling over Japan – before flying out into the central Pacific. 

Analysts dubbed the North Korean weapon the Juche Bird in an echo of the America’s only ballistic missile launch with a nuclear warhead – the Frigate Bird.

Kim may try to mirror what his old ally China did to prove its nuke to might to the US, as Beijing detonated a missile mounted warhead over the Pacific in 1966.

The “Juche Bird” would be the ultimate provocation of the West and would be an unprecedented step by North Korea that could spark World War 3. 

North Korea has been silent since September 15 – not firing any missiles or detonating any nuclear weapons.

At least 200 workers are reported to have died a collapse at nuke base Punggye-ri just days after Kim detonated his H-bomb.

US forces are flooding into the Pacific ahead of Donald Trump’s visit to the Asia starting later this week – with North Korea expected to top the agenda. 

Tensions have risen this year as Trump and Kim engaged in a fiery war of words over North Korea’s quest for ICBM.

The US President branded Kim a “rocket man on a suicide mission”, while the North Korean supreme leader slammed him as a “mentally ill dotard”.

US Air Force B2 bombers flew over the Pacific this week in a major show of strength amid growing war fears. 

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North Korea won’t think twice about ‘pressing button’ if US strikes, defector and former diplomat warns

Pyongyang will not hesitate to strike South Korea if Washington launches an attack on its territory, a former North Korean diplomat and defector from the state’s regime has warned. 

While the US has not ruled out a military option against North Korea amid heightened tensions in the peninsula, one of the highest-ranking North Korean defectors, Thae Yong-ho, has said that a military scenario would prompt Pyongyang to direct its fire at its southern neighbors.

“North Korean officers are trained to press the button without any further instructions from the general command if anything happens on their side,” Thae Yong-ho told a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee entitled “An Insider’s Look at the North Korean Regime”on Wednesday.

“If there is any sound of fire or bomb or strike from Americans, the military artilleries and short-range missiles will fire against South Korea,” Thae added.

Thousands of short-range missiles deployed at the demarcation line are ready to fire “at any moment,” the former diplomat said. There are tens of millions of South Koreans living within 70km to 80km of this area, who could have become a “human sacrifice,” according to Thae.

“I strongly believe that if there is any preventive or surgical strike of whatever, war will be won by America and South Korea, there is no doubt about it, but we have to see the human sacrifice from this military option,” the defector said. 

Meanwhile, South Korean intelligence suggests the North is preparing new missile nuclear tests as it is pursuing “the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads,” Yonhap reports. The South’s spy agency reportedly detected “active movement” of vehicles around the missile research facility in Pyongyang, it said. 

Earlier, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said a worldwide response is necessary in order to deal with North Korea’s development of long-range missiles. He was speaking at a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha in Seoul on Wednesday, when he said that “global threats require global responses.” 

Meanwhile, North Korea maintains that the US bolstering its presence off the Korean peninsula and staging war games with their regional allies constitutes preparation for a pre-emptive strike, which could escalate into a possible nuclear war.

“The joint-military exercises conducted by the US one after another all the year round on the Korean peninsula are clearly aggressive war exercises in their nature and scale,” North Korea’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ja Song-nam, said in Pyongyang’s most recent letter addressed to France’s UN Ambassador Francois Delattre, the current president of the UN Security Council.

Addressing the UNSC after the conclusion of the Maritime Counter Special Operations exercise (MCSOFEX), which involved the participation of vessels from the US Navy and the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy between October 17-20, the diplomat said the “naval rehearsal has further strained the tension on the Korean peninsula.”

Despite repeated appeals to avoid escalating tensions, the US continues to increase its military build-up in the region. As tensions rise, Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly urged both parties to remain calm. They have called for the implementation of the so-called “double-freeze” initiative, which envisages North Korea suspending its nuclear and missile program in exchange for the US and South Korea abandoning military exercises in the region. The proposal has been rejected by Washington.    RT

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