Japan may have to brace for a North Korean missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb flying over the archipelago if Pyongyang tests such a device in the Pacific Ocean, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Friday. « If the hydrogen bomb is going to be delivered by a ballistic missile, we cannot…
Japan may have to brace for a North Korean missile tipped with a hydrogen bomb flying over the archipelago if Pyongyang tests such a device in the Pacific Ocean, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Friday.
« If the hydrogen bomb is going to be delivered by a ballistic missile, we cannot rule out the possibility that it will fly over Japan, » Onodera said, after North Korea indicated it may test a hydrogen bomb following President Donald Trump’s recent U. N. address, in which he warned the United States will have « no choice but to totally destroy North Korea » if it needs to defend itself or its allies.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Washington could face the « highest level of hard-line countermeasure » in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Friday. The country’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said the « highest level » action may be a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean.
