(Dagbladet): – These are not empty words, we mean what we say. The US has not monopolize nuclear attack, said North Korea’s ambassador to Great Britain Hyun Hak-bong to Sky News in a rare interview.
The interview with Sky News has been allowed to get on the occasion the US and South Korea military exercises close to the North Korea, which the fresh nuclear power mean is preparations for invasion.
That the US does not have a monopoly on nuclear weapons, he was absolutely right. There are in fact eight countries in the world where there are confirmed nuclear testing. Following figures from 2013 had North Korea conducted three such, and lay at the bottom of the list of the eight nuclear powers.
– Anytime
According ambassador to North Korea anytime send off a nuclear missile, whose country is being threatened.
– If the Americans fire toward us, we fire back, responding ambassador to interview questions about the nation can and will use nuclear weapons.
The ambassador makes it clear that it will not be those who press the button first. He maintains that the North Koreans are a peace-loving country. But:
– We are not afraid to face nuclear war with nuclear war, we are not afraid of war, he says, referring to the state guidelines.
The commander of the US Forces in South Korea said last autumn that he believed North Korea has developed nuclear warheads that can be transported by rockets, according to NTB.
Braving the UN
In 2013 defied North Korea’s UN alerts to further develop its nuclear program, the notified including The Guardian about. This resulted in sanctions by the Security Council, which voted unanimously for the resolution, which also neighboring China participated.
This worked like gasoline on the fire.
Following the decision notified state media in North Korea that sanctions only had strengthened North Korea status as a nuclear power with the capacity to launch missiles.
Atom The test was conducted in February 2013, which triggered the UN resolution on sanctions, was the country’s most powerful to date, according to NTB.
When it was not clear whether North Korea had succeeded in developing a smaller warhead that could be carried by a missile. This mean ie experts from the United States now possibly the case.
– We are ready
That North Korea has developed such technology, ambassador confirm to Sky News.
– We are ready to fire nuclear power. Therefore I say that a slightest spark on the Korean peninsula will lead to nuclear war, says the ambassador.
Huge exercises
Each year, the US and South Korean military exercises off the Korean peninsula . This should be one of the world’s largest military exercises, and called Foal Eagle and Key Resolve.
The purpose of the exercise is to improve cooperation between two militaries, who speak different, to become more efficient, according to the BBC.
In Washington and Seoul calls the exercise of defensive and that it is not threatening towards North Korea. The North Koreans have a completely different opinion and believes the two states practicing invasion.
The exercises began on March 2 this year. Foal Eagle exercise lasts eight weeks, while Key Resolve exercise lasted 12 days.
Key Resolve exercise is a massive data simulated exercise, while Foal Eagle exercise consists of tens of thousands of soldiers who operate both on land, at sea and in the air.
– The nation’s life
This is not the first time North Korea has gone out with terrifying alerts.
A toppolitiker in Pyongyang, according to AP, having said in 2013 that North Korea’s nuclear weapons are “life of the nation” and that they vDo will sell them for billions of dollars.
But North Korea’s threats has previously been fortunately empty. In April 2013 told the state news agency KCNA that it is approaching the moment of an explosion and that a war may break out either today or tomorrow, according to CNN.
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