Pyongyang issues threats, ready to hit US bases
Seoul (AsiaNews /Agencies) - After military provocations, nuclear tests and continuous verbal attacks, North Korea's Stalinist regime announced this morning that it put its army and missile forces on "combat posture", ready to strike US Pacific military bases in Guam and Hawaii.
According to Pyongyang's official news agency KCNA, the country's young dictator, Kim Jong-un, personally ordered its special strategic forces to prepare for a strike against the United States, Guam and Hawaii in the Pacific.
"From this moment, the Supreme Command of the Korean People's Army will be putting in combat duty posture No 1 all field artillery units including long-range artillery units and strategic rocket units," the KCNA statement said. They must also be ready to "target all enemy objects in US invasionary bases on its mainland, Hawaii and Guam" as well as South Korea.
The statement on pre-emptive war is a response to new international sanctions against North Korea adopted last week by the United Nations Security Council.
Despite these threats, Seoul has authorised a humanitarian mission to bring anti-TB drugs to North Korea.
Although Pyongyang's ballistic missile test on 12 December was successful, experts do not believe it has technology capable of hitting the US mainland.
Hawaii and Guam are also considered to be out of range of North Korea's medium-range missiles; however, they could strike at bases in South Korea and Japan.
In the midst of the developing crisis, China has called on "all parties" in the controversy to exercise "restraint".
Chinese government spokesman Hong Lei made the invitation, which Beijing repeats every time Pyongyang is involved, just a few minutes after the North Korean statement.
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