By Anthony Young
North Korea has threatened to destroy Japan with nuclear weapons and “reduce the US mainland to ashes and darkness” in response to the countries’ efforts to mount sanctions on the troublesome nation. North Korea said the U.S should be beaten to death like a rabbit dog”
The communist nation plunging the world into a worrying crises has today issued a provocative threat to Japan and the U.S. In a poisonous statement, the North Korean so called peace committee said accused Japan of of dancing to the tune of U.S sanctiond, and added that Tokyo had not yet ”come to its senses” after the launch of our ICBM over the Japanese archpelago.
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“The four islands of the [Japanese] archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche,” the country’s Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA. “Japan is no longer needed to exist near us.”
Juche, or its synonym, ‘self-reliance’, is the official ideology of North Korea, originally crafted in the 1950s by founding father Kim Il Sung — grandfather of the present North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
Late last month, North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, a move that prompted US president Donald Trump to warn that “all options are on the table” for dealing with Pyongyang’s weapons programmes.
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Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s cabinet secretary, hit back at North Korea on Thursday, saying the threat to his nation was “outrageous and provocative in the extreme” and warning that it would “considerably raise regional tensions”.
On Monday the 15 member countires of the UN Security Council were united in their decision to execute measures against North Korea, including halting North Korean textile exports, capping fuel imports and banning the use of North Korean overseas labour.
The sanctions are expected to deprive Kim Jong Un’s regime of over $1.3bn in annaual revenues . However, the outward response from the North Korean stubborn and defiant leader was to double its efforts in the production of weapons of mass destruction.
The North Korean peace commitee said the US was the “chief culprit” for sanctions described as tantamount to “state terrorism”. It concluded by stating that “Now is the time to annihilate the US imperialist aggressors.”
Meanwhile, South Korea on Thursday said it was considering providing $8m of aid to North Korea through international organisations as it attempted to spur cross-border engagement.
The move is likely to be criticised as detrimental to the “maximum pressure” strategy espoused by Japan and the US for dealing with North Korea.
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