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Aug 14, 2024
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, is seen here guiding a nuclear counterattack drill in April
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Wednesday, (08/14/2024)
The following UPI article and linked stories are serious concerns for many reasons, not the least of which is that the U.S. is dedicated to and linked with South Korea relative to war and all ‘threats’, including nuclear. Having spent a year in South Korea, stationed close to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), in the early 1960s, I was and still am aware of South Korea’s never-ending need for military support and aid from the United States to protect their nation from North Korean aggression. Adding to the serious nature of the “cannon fodder” threat is the inclusion of Japan. ~llaw
Aug. 14, 2024 / 5:38 AM
North Korea warns South Korea, Japan will be nuclear ‘cannon fodder’
North Korean state media warned Tuesday that U.S. allies Seoul and Tokyo would be nuclear “cannon fodder.” Leader Kim Jong Un, seen guiding a nuclear counterattack drill in April, has declared North Korea a nuclear state. File Photo by KCNA/EPA-EFE
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (UPI) — North Korean state media has warned that strengthening trilateral ties with Washington risks turning the people of South Korea and Japan into “cannon fodder” for a nuclear attack.
An unsigned commentary in state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday said that military threats from the United States have forced the North into “bolstering up its nuclear war deterrence.”
“The DPRK’s ‘nuclear threat,’ touted by the U.S., is an inevitable result of the latter’s deep-rooted hostile policy toward the former that has lasted decades after decades and generation after generation,” the KCNA article said.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the official name of North Korea.
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The article added that growing security ties among the United States, Japan and Tokyo in response to North Korean threats has created a “serious tripartite security crisis” in the region.
“The strengthened tripartite security cooperation trumpeted by the U.S. has only made the peoples of Japan and the puppet ROK cannon fodder of nuclear war,” the article said, using the official acronym for South Korea.
The three allies held a summit in Camp David last year and have since ramped up their military partnership, including holding the first trilateral multi-domain military exercise in June.Subscribed
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