There is pretty obvious real trouble ahead between North Korea and the U.S. and the rest of the world because of North Korea likely going to do a Pacific ocean Test of a hydrogen bomb. Why? Because there is literally no way it can do such a test without telling people where exactly without killing hundreds to thousands of people thereby setting off world war III. Because a hydrogen bomb set off out in the open anywhere on the Pacific Ocean is going to allow radiation to go with the winds likely right over to the U.S. and Canada and Mexico and continue going to Europe and Asia and China and Russia. So, setting off a hydrogen bomb on the open pacific air is going to radiate the whole world.
And wanting to make sure they can safely? hit the U.S. east coast with a nuclear ICMB likely a hydrogen bomb ICBM only makes it more certain the U.S. is going to have to kill 10 to 25 million people in North and South Korea in order to stop this. So, each day the differences between North Korea and the U.S. grow more and more profound and with Trump in office make it almost inevitable that nukes go off in North Korea by the U.S. or North Korea but likely both.
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N. Korea says no diplomacy until it can hit US with missile
North Korea rejects diplomacy with US for now, source says
Washington (CNN)A
North Korean official reaffirmed Pyongyang's commitment to developing a
long-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching "all
the way to the East coast of the mainland US," on Monday, telling CNN
that the rogue nation is currently not interested in diplomacy with the
US until it achieves that goal.
North
Korea is not ruling out diplomacy, but "before we can engage in
diplomacy with the Trump administration, we want to send a clear message
that the DPRK has a reliable defensive and offensive capability to
counter any aggression from the United States," the official said.
The
comments offer a sobering challenge to the US and the Trump
administration which has offered mixed messages regarding diplomatic
efforts with North Korea.
White House chief of staff John Kelly said last week
that Americans should be concerned about North Korea's ability to reach
the United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile,
cryptically telling reporters that if the threat grows "beyond where it
is today, well, let's hope that diplomacy works."
Significantly, Kelly noted that Pyongyang "is developing a pretty good nuclear re-entry vehicle."
For a missile to successfully strike a target it would have to re-enter the earth's atmosphere without breaking up.
Kelly's
comments seem to indicate that the US believes that North Korea is
close to achieving what would be a key breakthrough for their missile
program.
The North Korean official told CNN that two additional steps are needed to achieve its goal of a reliable ICBM.
One step is an above-ground nuclear detonation,
like the kind North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho threatened at
the United Nations last month when he suggested leader Kim Jong Un was
considering detonating "an unprecedented scale hydrogen bomb" over the Pacific after Trump threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea.
The other step is the "testing of a long-range ICBM capable of reaching Guam - and even further," the official said.
Last week, North Korean state media renewed a threat to launch missiles toward the US territory of Guam, warning that "reckless moves" by the US would compel Pyongyang to take action.
North
Korea first said it was examining a plan to target the Pacific island
in August after Trump warned the isolated regime would "face fire and
fury like the world has never seen" following a US intelligence
assessment that North Korea had produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead.
Both
steps are necessary for the DPRK to send that "clear message" to the
Trump administration that it possesses an effective nuclear deterrent,
the North Korean official said on Monday.
The
official added that one or both of these tests could possibly be timed
to coincide with the US-South Korea joint naval drills, which began
Monday and will last for ten days, or could possibly coincide with
Trump's visit to Asia next month.
Joint
military exercises are particularly infuriating to Pyongyang. The North
Korean government views them as a dress rehearsal for an invasion --
even as the US insists they are purely defensive in nature.
The
US will practice evacuating civilians from South Korea in its annual
Courageous Channel training exercise later this month -- a routinely
scheduled exercise that "prepares service members and their families to
respond to a wide range of crisis management events such as
non-combatant evacuation and natural or man made disasters," according
to US Forces Korea.
Asked Monday
if his possible visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) next month
will provoke North Korea Trump said he would "take a look at that" but
added he "hadn't heard in terms of provoking."
On
Sunday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said his diplomatic efforts
will continue as long as they possibly can despite the saber-rattling
on both sides of the Pacific.
"Those diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb drops," Tillerson said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Democratic
Rep. Brendan Boyle of the House Foreign Affairs Committee told CNN's
Wolf Blitzer on Monday that he believes the US should continue to pursue
diplomacy with Pyongyang but ultimately, must prevent North Korea from
developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the US.
"I don't believe we can live with that possibility," he said.
North Korean anger over US 'decapitation' plan
A
North Korean diplomat publicly expressed anger on Monday over reports
that hackers gained access to a US-South Korean plan to "decapitate" the
regime's leadership.
North Korea's deputy UN Ambassador warned that the plan is "dangerous" and an insult to the nation.
CNN
has reported that the North Korea hackers stole classified military
documents from a South Korean Defense ministry database in September
2016, according to Rhee Cheol-hee, a member of South Korea's National
Assembly. He said the documents stolen included the South Korea-US
wartime operational plan and a document that includes procedures to
"decapitate" the North Korean leadership.
North
Korea's deputy Ambassador Kim In Ryong told a UN committee meeting on
nuclear issues that "what is more dangerous is that the US dared to
formulate a plan and stage the exercise of decapitation operation and
secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership."
"This
is an unbearable insult to the supreme dignity of the DPRK and it
arouses extreme anger from our people and service personnel," Ryong
said.
The North Korean UN diplomat also fiercely defended Pyongyang's nuclear and missile tests.
Why North Korea wants nukes and missiles
North
Korea has long maintained it wants nuclear weapons and long-range
missiles to deter the United States from attempting to overthrow the
regime of Kim Jong Un.
Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq -- where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States -- and Libya -- its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest -- and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.
Many experts say they believe North Korea would not use the weapons first. Kim values his regime's survival above all else and knows the use of a nuclear weapon would start a war he could not win, analysts say.
Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq -- where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States -- and Libya -- its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest -- and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.
Many experts say they believe North Korea would not use the weapons first. Kim values his regime's survival above all else and knows the use of a nuclear weapon would start a war he could not win, analysts say.
"Unless
the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the US is thoroughly
eradicated, we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets
on the negotiation table under any circumstance and will never flinch
even an inch from the road we have chosen, upholding the line of
simultaneously developing the two fronts, the everlasting banner in
safeguarding the peace," Ryong said.
"This
year, we have passed the final gate of completing the state nuclear
force and thus became the full- fledged nuclear power which possesses
the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb
and intercontinental ballistic rockets," he said. "The entire US
mainland is within our firing range and if the US dares to invade our
sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment
in any part of the globe."
Mixed messages
US-led
efforts to apply additional diplomatic pressure on North Korea in
recent months have been met with greater defiance as the Kim regime
continues to march toward realizing its nuclear ambitions.
Despite
assurances from Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson that the US continues to seek a peaceful resolution,
neither side has overtly indicated that it is ready or willing to engage
in serious negotiations.
Trump
has repeatedly undercut comments made by his top officials and publicly
engaged in a war of words with Kim that has devolved into insults and
name-calling -- only raising fears of an eventual military conflict.
Trump said earlier this month that the US will "do what we must do" to prevent further threats from North Korea.
"We
cannot allow this dictatorship to threaten our nation or our allies
with unimaginable loss of life," he said at a meeting with top military
officers. "We will do what we must do to prevent that from happening and
it will be done if necessary, believe me."
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