BREAKING: WW3 fears grow as North Korea threat ‘heightened to levels never seen before’
THE threat of Kim Jong-un’s North Korea is ‘heightened to levels never seen before’, Japan’s deputy prime minister has warned.
By Douglas Patient
DailyStar.co.uk
16th October 2017
Taro Aso made the chilling warning during a meeting with US vice president Mike Pence today.
On Saturday he also singled out North Korea’s development of deliverable nuclear weapons as “the most significant geopolitical risk” to otherwise steady growth in the global economy.
This comes as North Korea has warned countries at the United Nations today in a statement to not join the United States in military action against the hermit state.
The caution was contained in a copy of North Korean Deputy UN Ambassador Kim In Ryong’s prepared remarks for a discussion on nuclear weapons by a UN General Assembly committee.
“As long as one does not take part in the US military actions against the DPRK (North Korea), we have no intention to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against any other country,” according to Kim’s prepared remarks.
“The entire US mainland is within our firing range and if the U.S. dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe,” the statement read.
Tensions have soared between the US and North Korea following a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang and a string of increasingly bellicose exchanges between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The UN Security Council has unanimously ratcheted up sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs since 2006.
North Korean Deputy UN Ambassador Kim did tell the UN General Assembly committee on Monday: “Unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the U.S. is thoroughly eradicated, we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the negotiation table under any circumstance.”
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