North Korea threatens to 'burn Manhattan to ashes' with a hydrogen bomb - By Danielle Demetriou - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/12193538/North-Korea-threatens-to-burn-Manhattan-to-ashes-with-a-hydrogen-bomb.html
The claim is the latest in a string of increasingly bold threats made by the hermit regime's leader, Kim Jong-un
North Korea has claimed it could "burn Manhattan down to ashes" by firing a hydrogen bomb into the heart of the city on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The claim is the latest in a string of increasingly bold threats made by Pyongyang against a backdrop of South Korea and the United States conducting major military exercises on the Korean peninsula.
The statement, which was made via the state-run outlet DPRK Today, claimed that North Korea's hydrogen bomb was more powerful than technology developed by the former Soviet Union.
Many experts believe that Kim Jong-Un, North Korea's leader, is overstating the regime's technical capabilities and doubt its ability to launch a long-range missile to the east coast of the United States.
The increasingly strong rhetoric emerging from Pyongyang appears to reflect the leader's anger at the international community's tough new sanctions recently imposed in response to recent nuclear and missile tests.
"Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union." DPRK Today was quoted as saying in the Washington Post.
"If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes."
The newly-developed hydrogen bomb "surpasses our imagination," a scientist named Cho Hyong-Il is quoted as stating, adding: "The H-bomb developed by the Soviet Union in the past was able to smash windows of buildings 1,000 kms away and the heat was strong enough to cause third-degree burns 100 kms away."
North Korea angered the international community in January when a fourth nuclear test was conducted, although the regime's claims that it was a hydrogen bomb as opposed to an atomic device were doubted by experts.
The following month, North Korea proceeded to launch what was claimed to be a rocket into orbit, although it was widely regarded to form part of the regime's long-range ballistic missile program.
Tensions are currently running high in the region, with the largest ever war exercises so far staged on the Korean peninsula launched last week, involving an estimated 290,000 South Korean troops alongside 15,000 US military.
There are reports that one potential scenario included in the annual drills, which run until the end of April and are twice as big as last year, is exploring military responses to the collapse of the North Korea regime.
The launch of the war games coincided last week with Pyongyang warning that Washington and Seoul would be turned into "flames and ashes", according to North Korean state media.
The regime fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Thursday in an expression of its discontent, while it also warned it would make a "preemptive and offensive nuclear strike" in response to the exercises.
Nuclear War with North Korea Coming? - By Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/nuclear-war-with-north-korea-coming
On Sunday, North Korea warned the United States that it could wipe out Manhattan with a single hydrogen bomb, and earlier this month North Korea threatened to make a "preemptive and offensive nuclear strike" on the United States in response to aggressive military exercises currently being jointly conducted by South Korea and the U.S. military. So does nuclear war with North Korea actually pose a significant security risk to this country? Well, according to the Washington Post the entire west coast of the United States is within reach of North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missiles. The only question is whether or not North Korea's ultra-paranoid leader Kim Jong Un would ever actually press the button.
Most Americans don't realize this, but nuclear war with North Korea is now closer than it has ever been before. In the past, North Korea's technical capabilities were greatly limited, but now all of that has apparently changed. Just consider what has taken place within just the past few months. The following comes from a timeline that was put together by the Arms Control Association...
January 6, 2016: North Korea announces it conducted a fourth nuclear weapons test, claiming to have detonated a hydrogen bomb for the first time. Monitoring stations from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization detect the seismic activity from the test. The type of device tested remains unclear, although experts doubt it was of a hydrogen bomb based on seismic evidence.
February 7, 2016: North Korea launches a long-range ballistic missile carrying what it has said is an earth observation satellite in defiance of United Nations sanctions barring it from using ballistic missile technology, drawing strong international condemnation from other governments which believe it will advance North Korea's military ballistic missile capabilities.
March 2, 2016: The UN Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 2270 condemning the nuclear test and launch of early 2016, and demanding that North Korea not conduct further tests and immediately suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile program. Resolution 2270 expands existing sanctions on North Korea by adding to the list of sanctioned individuals and entities, introducing new financial sanctions, and banning states from supplying aviation fuel and other specified minerals to North Korea. Resolution 2270 also introduces a requirement that UN member states inspect all cargo in transit to or from North Korea for illicit goods and arms.
In response to these moves, South Korea and the U.S. military have launched the largest military exercises in the history of South Korea. More than 300,000 troops have gathered to simulate an invasion of North Korea and practice the elimination of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction. These military exercises being held over a period of eight weeks, and this is precisely what caused North Korea to threaten us with a "preemptive and offensive nuclear strike".
And on Sunday, North Korea boasted that they could reduce Manhattan to ashes with a single hydrogen bomb...
"Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union," DPRK Today, a state-run outlet, reported Sunday. DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.
"If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes," the report said, citing a nuclear scientist named Cho Hyong Il.
I don't know about you, but I find statements such as these to be quite alarming.
Earlier this month, Kim Jong Un put his nuclear weapons on alert "for use at any time", and Reuters is reporting that he has just ordered his military to conduct even more nuclear weapon tests.
So why is there so little concern about this in the United States?
Sometimes it is the enemy that you underestimate the most that ends up being your greatest threat.
Meanwhile, in the midst of everything else, a North Korean submarine "has gone missing"...
The North Korean regime lost contact with one of its submarines earlier this week, three U.S. officials familiar with the latest information told CNN.
The U.S. military had been observing the submarine operate off North Korea's east coast when the vessel stopped, and U.S. spy satellites, aircraft and ships have been secretly watching for days as the North Korean navy searched for the missing sub.
The U.S. is unsure if the missing vessel is adrift under the sea or whether it has sunk, the officials said, but believes it suffered some type of failure during an exercise.
At a time when tensions on the Korean peninsula are near an all-time high, this is a very disturbing development. The last thing that we need is some sort of "trigger event" that could cause the North Koreans to want to start pressing buttons.
Most Americans don't realize this, but hatred for America is one of the centerpieces of North Korean society. In fact, they have an entire month each year during which they celebrate how much they hate us. The following comes form a New York Post article that was published last June...
June is something like Hate America Month in North Korea.
Officially, it's called "Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism Month" and - more so than usual - it's a time for North Koreans to swarm to war museums, mobilize for gatherings denouncing the evils of the United States and join in a general, nationwide whipping up of anti-American sentiment.
The culmination this year came Thursday - the 65th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War - with a 100,000-strong rally in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Stadium.
If Manhattan actually was reduced to a pile of ashes by a hydrogen bomb, there would be dancing in the streets of Pyongyang.
So let us not underestimate the threat that North Korea poses. They hate us enough to want to completely destroy us, they now have the technological capability of hitting major west coast cities with nukes, and they have an ultra-paranoid young leader with his hand on the trigger. Meanwhile, we have an increasingly aggressive leader of our own sitting in the White House that seems to like to yank Kim Jong Un's chain.
If push came to shove, North Korea would attempt to hit American targets with nukes.
Let us just hope and pray that it does not happen any time soon.
North Korea claims it made miniature nuclear warheads to place on missiles - http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/08/north-korea-claims-to-have-made-miniature-nuclear-warheads-to-place-on-missiles.html
North Korea caused a new stir Wednesday by publicizing a purported mock-up of a key part of a nuclear warhead, with leader Kim Jong Un saying his country has developed miniaturized atomic bombs that can be placed on missiles.
The North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper carried photos on its front page showing Kim and nuclear scientists standing beside what outside analysts say appears to be a model warhead part -- a small, silverish globe with a ballistic missile or a model ballistic missile in the background.
The newspaper said Kim met his nuclear scientists for a briefing on the status of their work and declared he was greatly pleased that warheads had been standardized and miniaturized for use on ballistic missiles.
Information from secretive, authoritarian North Korea is often impossible to confirm and the country's state media have a history of photo manipulations. But it was the first time the North has publicly displayed its purported nuclear designs, though it remains unclear whether the country has functioning warheads of that size or is simply trying to develop one.
This also would be the first time Kim has been quoted directly about the miniaturized warheads.
"The nuclear warheads have been standardized to be fit for ballistic missiles by miniaturizing them," state media agency KCNA quoted Kim as saying as he inspected a nuclear facility.
"This can be called true nuclear deterrent," he added.
The latest developments from the reclusive country come amid heightened tensions following claims it tested a hydrogen bomb in January.
On Monday at State of Air Force briefing at Pentagon, the Air Force's top officer Gen. Mark Welsh told Fox News, that while the actions of North Korea are "very worrisome," the country does not have the capability to put a nuclear warhead on top of a missile and shoot it at the United States.
North Korea warned Monday of pre-emptive nuclear strikes after the United States and South Korea began holding their biggest ever war games.
Tensions remain high after North Korea's recent nuclear test and rocket launch, which prompted the United Nations to adopt tough new sanctions.
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