The North Korean government released…
The North Korean government released a statement through its state-run news agency Tuesday that should it sense a threat on North Korean President Kim Jong Un from the United States, the communist country will retaliate with a nuclear strike on U. S. soil.
CNN reported that, during an interview with Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, a foreign ministry spokesman said, “Should the U. S. dare to show even the slightest sign of attempt to remove our supreme leadership, we will strike a merciless blow at the heart of the US with our powerful nuclear hammer, honed and hardened over time.”
The statement came just weeks after Kim personally oversaw a ballistic missile test that experts, and North Korea said is capable of reaching Alaska or Hawaii. Kim called the July 4 test a “gift” for the “American bastards” as the U. S. celebrated its Independence Day.
The U. S. and South Korea conducted a missile test of their own shortly afterward with a precision-guided missile that military officials said was capable of “a precision strike at the enemy leadership, ” then followed that by releasing video taken by spies of Kim Jong Un at the missile testing site.
