There are concerns about a new more serious North Korea nuclear missile threat. North Korea has threatened to deploy nuclear missiles against its perceived enemies in the past. These enemies are often referred to as South Korea and the United States. Its top military body once issued the following statement:
The U.S. imperialists, engrossed in the hostile policy toward the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] century after century, should be mindful that the time of nightmare is coming nearer when they will meet the most disastrous, final doom on the U.S. mainland…It is the decision of the army and people of the DPRK to have no longer need or willingness to sit at negotiating table with the U.S. since the latter seeks to stamp out the ideology of the former and ‘bring down’ its social system… the army and people of the DPRK have decided to write the last page of the U.S. history of shameful defeat about its final ruin exactly on the U.S. land..
Gatestone Institute now warns that, for a number of reasons, the threat should be taken more seriously. It’s first bullet point notes that China is still transferring nuclear weapons technology to both North Korea and Iran.
The Middle East is already an incendiary and has the potential to become catastrophic. Keep in mind that Iran has stated that it wants to eradicate Israel. It has used Syria and Hezbollah as proxies in their war against Israel. Now Syria is under threat from the “Islamic State” (ISIS). If Iran wants to preserve its influence in Syria, it must eventually act. While it doesn’t have nuclear missile capability yet, it may consider that option once it does.
But as far as the U.S. is concerned, Gatestone’s following observations should also concern the Obama Administration:
North Korea appears to have made significant progress in extending its capability as a nuclear-armed rogue nation, to where its missiles may become capable of hitting American cities with little or no warning. What new evidence makes such a threat compelling? North Korea claims to have nuclear warheads small enough to fit on their ballistic missiles and missiles capable of being launched from a submerged platform such as a submarine…keep reading
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