North Korea Says “Loud-Mouthed” Trump’s “Reckless” Syria Bombings Justify Their Nuclear Program
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Apr 10, 2017
If a secondary goal of the Trump administration’s recent bombing of a Syrian airfield was to send a strong a message to North Korea that their missile launch provocations will not be tolerated, it didn’t work.
According to the Associated Press, a North Korean Foreign Ministry official recently spoke on the state-run Korean Central News Agency and described U.S. airstrikes in Syria as “absolutely unpardonable” and said they simply served to prove that its nuclear weapons are justified to protect the country against Washington’s “evermore reckless moves for a war.”
“Some forces are loud-mouthed that the recent U.S. military attack on Syria is an action of warning us but we are not frightened by it,” the report said, adding that the North’s “tremendous military muscle with a nuclear force as its pivot” will foil any aggression by the U.S.
“We will bolster up in every way our capability for self-defense to cope with the U.S. evermore reckless moves for a war and defend ourselves with our own force,” it said.
For its part, as we noted last week, North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile just ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and has been rumored to be preparing for a possible nuclear test. This latest provocation prompted the following terse response from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, suggesting that the Trump administration’s next move will involve military force rather than diplomacy.
“North Korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile. The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment.”
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