North Korea has dismissed protests against its increasingly belligerent use of missile testing from the United States, calling America a “nuclear criminal” and threatening “final doom” in a state newspaper column published Thursday.
“Although the Trump group are vying with each other to cry out for pressure on the DPRK, it sounds as nothing but pitiful despair of those upset by the Songun might of Juche Korea,” the article in the state-run Rodong Sinmun protested, listing remarks from President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and others in the White House who have repeatedly demanded North Korea cease threatening both its neighbors and Washington. “DPRK” is an abbreviation for the name the communist Kim regime prefers for itself, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
North Korea launched a missile towards Japan on Monday, which crossed over northernmost Hokkaido island before crashing into the Pacific Ocean. It was the latest in a series of similar missile launches intended to intimidate South Korea and the United States after repeated threats Pyongyang would launch a nuclear missile at Guam, an American territory.
“The U.S. has no qualification for talking about nuclear threats from other countries as it is a nuclear criminal, who imposed nuclear disaster on mankind for the first time in the world and it is also a poser of nuclear threat to other countries to not its liking after stockpiling nukes,” Rodong‘s article argues, referring to America’s use of nuclear weapons during World War II. The article notably omits what the target of those nuclear weapons was: Japan, a nation Pyongyang routinely rails against and has most recently threatened with a bombing. READ MORE
