North Korea says ‘a nuclear war may break out any moment’

Kim In Ryong told the U.N. General Assembly’s disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to “such an extreme and direct nuclear threat” from the United States since the 1970s — and said the country has the right to possess nuclear weapons in self-defense.

He pointed to large-scale military exercises every year using “nuclear assets” and said what is more dangerous is what he called a U.S. plan to stage a “secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership.”

He told the disarmament committee that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — North Korea’s official name — had hoped for a nuclear-free world.

“The DPRK consistently supports the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the efforts for denuclearization of the entire world,” he said. But as long as the United States rejects the treaty and “constantly threatens and blackmails the DPRK with nuclear weapons ... the DPRK is not in position to accede to the treaty.”

Let’s take the NK dictator at his word, and ask, the world, if such a threat to NK from the U.S. exists, then why - what are the conditions that cause it to exist, and what would in fact set if off.

We can sum all the many details up in few general points.

There is no peace agreement from the Korean War, just an armistice (agreed on temporary halt in fighting) so a state of war officially still exists, between North Korea and South Korea & the United Nations Unified Command operating under the operational control of the United States. The signers of the armistice were the China-North Korea Command and the United Nations Command.

The North Korean response since the signing of the armistice has been continued belligerence and continued acts of aggression by North Korea against the nation of South Korea, South Korean leaders and South Korea individuals, on Korean soil and inside other nations, as well as against U.S. military units & persons and U.S. civilians, and against Japanese citizens on Japanese soil (abductions of Japanese civilians, taken to North Korea).

Instead of moving to, preparing for and negotiating for peace, North Korea has continually threatened war and prepared for war, while attempting nuclear geopolitical blackmail to try to obtain concessions from South Korea and the U.S.

If there is any U.S. threat towards North Korea it is a responsible response to the posture of North Korea and its continued belligerent history since signing the armistice.

What North Korea wants is it does not want the U.S. to be helping to protect South Korea. That is not going to happen. If that is what constitutes the threat to North Korea, it is a condition it has created.

Exactly. NK has no intention of attacking SK. They have had 70 years to do so. Either they are the laziest villains in history, or they have never really been serious about taking on American and SK militarily. But, that doesn’t answer the question: people seem to think that NK was threatening nuclear war. Yet, they clearly weren’t, but rather using the “threat” from the US as justification for not signing the nuclear proliferation treaty. What exactly should Trump’s reaction to that be, that will make NK regret their decision?

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