North Korea’s propaganda arm ruffled feathers in an already tense region.
North Korea’s propaganda arm suggested the hermetic nation could send Japan “into the sea, ” ruffling feathers in an already tense region.
“The four islands of the (Japanese) archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche, ” the Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee said in a statement carried Thursday by the Korea Central News Agency. “Japan is no longer needed to exist near us.”
Juche is North Korea’s term for its ideology of self reliance.
The propaganda wing’s threat comes after the U. N. Security Council passed its toughest sanctions yet against North Korea, which earlier this month conducted its sixth nuclear test.
The statement Thursday referred to the 15-member security council as a “tool of evil” comprised of “money-bribed” nations led by the U. S.
North Korea additionally threatened to “reduce the U. S. mainland into ashes and darkness.”
“Let’s vent our spite with mobilization of all retaliation means which have been prepared till now, ” reads the statement from the Peace Committee, which is tied to the Workers’ Party that runs North Korea.
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga called the remarks provocative and only “escalates tensions in the region.”
“If North Korea stays the course that it is on, it will increasingly become isolated from the world, ” Suga told reporters, according to Bloomberg.
