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Kim Jong-Un and North Korea have threatened to ‘pulverize’ the United States as tensions are reportedly at an all-time high. This is evident in Kim Jong-un reportedly gearing up to carry out a sixth nuclear test after satellites picked up increased activity at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, according to the Sun. Senior US intelligence sources claim Donald Trump is prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike if the test goes ahead.
President Trump has already sent an aircraft carrier-led strike group to the Korean peninsula in a show of strength. The jets in the arsenal include HH-60 Pave Hawks, F-15 Eagles, E-3 Sentries, and KC-135 Stratotankers. Military officials call it the Air Force’s largest combat-ready wing.
US Air Force sends message to North Korea with display of air power https://t.co/o9uht1K6Wi pic.twitter.com/y3n4iyzPaQ
— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) April 14, 2017
The North’s Korean People’s Army has now released a statement saying Trump had “entered the path of open threat and blackmail against the DPRK”. It also makes reference to the USA’s recent missile strike on ISIS targets in Afghanistan, saying that US military bases in South Korea “would be pulverized within a few minutes” if they were to attempt that on the secretive state of North Korea.
The statement added: “The closer such big targets as nuclear powered aircraft carriers come (to the Korean peninsula), the greater would be the effect of merciless strikes.”
Former CIA officer Dennis Wilder told ABC Kim would be able to strike at both the US West Coast and Australia very soon if he was able to keep developing his missiles, according to the Sun.
He said: “Such a move would be disastrous – after all a 10-kiloton weapon could kill 100,000 people.
“We believe, and American intelligence estimates say this, that the North Koreans could have such a weapon within the next four years.”
And the Japanese PM Shinzo Abe warned North Korea was capable of filling its missiles with deadly sarin nerve gas – the same poison used in the recent chemical attack in Syria.
Wouldn’t it be glorious if all the world’s problems could be settled with a Nerf gun fight? This shit is too heavy for me.
[h/t the Sun]