SEOUL • A North Korean state agency threatened yesterday to use nuclear weapons to «sink» Japan and reduce the United States to «ashes and darkness» for backing a United Nations Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test..
SEOUL • A North Korean state agency threatened yesterday to use nuclear weapons to «sink» Japan and reduce the United States to «ashes and darkness» for backing a United Nations Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test.
Pyongyang’s Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North’s external ties and propaganda, also called for the break-up of the Security Council, which it called «a tool of evil» made up of «money-bribed» countries that move at the order of the US.
«The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us, » the committee said in a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency.
Juche is the North’s ruling ideology that mixes Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism preached by state founder Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un.
Regional tension has risen markedly since the North conducted its sixth, and by far its most powerful, nuclear test on Sept 3.
