North Korea: We Will Preemptively Nuke the United States

The rulers of North Korea are insane. This statement is likely a threat that was levied to prevent the UN from imposing more sanctions, but nonetheless has a destabilizing effect on the region. Imagine what would happen if Iran got a nuclear weapon.

Kim Jong-Un

From NBC:

North Korea threatened to exercise its "right to pre-emptive nuclear attack" Thursday, hours before the United Nations Security Council slapped new sanctions on Pyongyang over its latest nuclear test.

"Now that the U.S. is set to light a fuse for a nuclear war, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will exercise the right to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors and to defend the supreme interests of the country," the North's foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency. "The U.S. is massively deploying armed forces for aggression, including nuclear carrier task force and strategic bombers, enough to fight a nuclear war under the smokescreen of 'annual drills'."

A spokesman for South Korea's defense ministry told Reuters that the military was "watching the North's activities and stepping up readiness."

Later on Thursday, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed sanctions aimed at North Korea's financial transactions and illicit cargo shipments, and its criminal activities such as drugs and counterfeiting.

After the vote, Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said that the "entire world stands united in our commitment to the de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula and in our demand that North Korea complies with its international obligations."

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