North Korea’s state propaganda outlets have not tempered their rhetoric in the hours following a shocking missile launch over northern Japan early Tuesday morning, instead threatening the United States and its allies with “nuclear catastrophe” if they continue to object to Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions.
In multiple columns posted on its website Tuesday, the state-run Rodong Sinmunnewspaper threatened to attack America and its allies and vowed to continue to “sharpen its just nuclear treasured sword,” despite international condemnation for its nuclear program.
“The DPRK is showing no mercy, making the outrageous forces being at its beck and call with just nukes in order to have the country free from the nuclear threat,” one article read. “If the U.S. persists in the reckless anti-DPRK moves, sanctions and pressure, it will eventually meet a miserable fate while spending hard time.”
“So long as the U.S. and its vassal forces persist with such actions and imperialism, the root cause of injustice and evils, remains, [sic] the DPRK will further sharpen its just nuclear treasured sword in its hand and defend independence and justice with nukes and usher in a new era of national prosperity with their might,” the article concluded.
This particular piece expressed anger at American diplomats’ softening of tone in light of North Korea walking back its threat to attack Guam. Following a North Korean announcement they would postpone such a preemptive attack, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lauded the communist regime’s “restraint” and has hinted at the potential for talks with Pyongyang.
“The U.S. Secretary of State, the national security advisor to the President and other VIPs vied with each other in claiming that ‘the U.S. is willing to have negotiations with the north’ … [t]his is nothing but a revelation of the sinister intention to continue resorting to the moves for stifling the DPRK,” the article protested, using the government’s preferred abbreviation for the country (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). READ MORE
