North Korea speaks of using nuclear weapons while launching other strategic missiles
This week there has been a real escalation of verbal threats between North Korea and the USA, complete with a call from Washington to Beijing to intervene by checking PyongYang's excessive warmongering , even if the thing seems to have gone silent, or almost, in the Western media. If China does not intervene, the USA reserves the right to take countermeasures.
In the latest incident, North Korea fired several cruise missiles west of the Korean peninsula on Saturday, according to South Korean military statements, and this is the response of Kim Jong Un's government to the presence of a US nuclear submarine at South Korean naval bases.
It marks at least the second missile launch and "warning" from Pyongyang this week. “North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the Yellow Sea on Saturday,” the Joint Chiefs of Staff [SK JCS] said.
“ South Korean and US intelligence authorities were analyzing the launches, which occurred around 4:00 a.m., to learn more about the type of missiles fired and other details, according to the JCS.” The JCS statement added: "Our military has strengthened surveillance and vigilance by cooperating closely with the United States and maintaining a firm position of readiness."
As we highlighted this week, the Ohio-class USS Kentucky docked in the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday, marking the first time since 1981 that a US nuclear-armed submarine has arrived in the country. It also marked the first time since the United States withdrew its tactical nuclear weapons from South Korea in 1991 that US nuclear weapons have been deployed on the Korean peninsula.
Immediately after the arrival of the nuclear-armed submarine, Pyongyang launched accusations of nuclear escalation aimed at Seoul and Washington…
North Korean Defense Minister Kang Sun-nam criticized US-South Korea cooperation on nuclear weapons in a press release released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency.
Kang said US and South Korean officials held the NCG meeting "to discuss the plan for using nuclear weapons against the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]." An unveiled threat of nuclear war.
Discussing North Korea's nuclear policy, Kang said, “I remind the US military that the ever-increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may come under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK's Nuclear Force Policy Law.”
He then stated that Pyongyang's nuclear doctrine "allows for the necessary action procedures to be carried out in the event that a nuclear attack is launched against it or the use of nuclear weapons against it is believed to be imminent".
After US officials held the NCG meeting, they issued a statement saying any nuclear attack from the North “ will lead to the end of that regime” .
Currently, apart from the nuclear component, South Korea's military is several times superior to that of the North, especially technologically. The only thing preventing a response to these provocations is North Korea's nuclear weapon and the repeated threat to use it. At the same time this threat cannot be continued forever.
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/la-corea-del-nord-parla-di-uso-dellarma-nucleare-mente-lancia-altri-missili-strategici/ on Sun, 23 Jul 2023 07:00:37 +0000.