“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity” ~llaw
Feb 24, 2025
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LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY with the RISKS and CONSEQUENCES of TOMORROW
The instant problem as I see it: The White House in January said that: the “complete denuclearization” of North Korea remains President Donald Trump‘s priority.
Such a statement by Trump — or his White House — is no doubt bound to raise the hackles on the back of Kim Jong Un’s neck. If I were anyone living or militarily stationed in South Korea right now, I would be scared stiff, and those of us here in the USA and other countries around the world should at least be shaking in their boots.
Kim Jong Un and North Korea are not about to give up any part of their nuclear arsenal and Trump ought to clearly know that. Trump also ought to be well aware that Kim Jong Un is looking to expand his country’s nuclear arms capabilities, not reduce them.
This is the kind of “shooting from the hip lack of diplomacy” or forethought that Trump has always had, just as he has done this past week to rile up Ukraine, including his flagrant lie that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy started the Russia/Ukraine war, which, of course, has forced Trump to eat crow.
Trump is an embarrassment to the entire free world. We simply cannot have this kind of international “brow beating” in the dim light of this angry world of nuclear weapons of mass destruction coincident with threats that could almost instantly bring life on planet earth to an end. ~llaw
North Korea Issues Nuclear Threat To US
Published Feb 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM EST
01:08
By Jordan King
US News Reporter
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North Korea has issued a threat to the U.S., saying it will “counter the enemies’ strategic threat with our strategic means.”
The threat was made in a press statement issued by the chief of the Information Office at the DPRK Ministry of National Defense on Friday.
Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Department of Defense, via email, for comment.
Why It Matters
Pyongyang has long cited defense cooperation between the U.S. and South Korea, including joint exercises, as a destabilizing force that justifies its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Washington and Seoul have formed an alliance under a mutual defense treaty and 28,500 U.S. military personnel are stationed in South Korea to deter aggression from North Korea. The allies have frequently conducted combined military exercises.
What To Know
North Korea said “the U.S. and its vassal forces are getting evermore pronounced in their military provocations,” citing the presence of a B-1B strategic bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Thursday and the test-firing of a Minuteman 3 ICBM at the Vandenberg Space Force Base the day before.
“Such military muscle-flexing of the U.S. clearly show the invariable supremacy ambition of the present U.S. administration to gain an overwhelming edge of strength through the maintenance and updating of military capabilities capable of mounting a nuclear attack on any country and region of the world without prior warning,” Pyongyang said.
It went on: “The typical Yankee-style arrogance and shameless and gangster-like double-standards logic of the U.S., which brands the DPRK’s nuclear deterrence for self-defence as an injustice means and places ‘legality’ and ‘regularity’ on former’s moves for bolstering up nuclear force for hegemony, can never work on the DPRK.
“The DPRK’s nuclear force is a means for legitimate defence to safeguard the national sovereignty and the security of the region.”
Pyongyang ended with: “The DPRK’s solution to the military threat and challenge to the security being posed by the U.S. is clear and consistent.
“The DPRK will counter the strategic threat of the U.S. and other enemies with strategic means and continue its responsible military activities to control and manage the unstable security environment on the Korean peninsula with powerful deterrence.”
What People Are Saying
The South Korean Defense Ministry said of the U.S.-South Korea joint aerial drill on Thursday: “The training was conducted to display the U.S. extended deterrence capabilities against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats and bolster interoperability of South Korea-U.S. combined forces.”
The White House in January said that: the “complete denuclearization” of North Korea remains President Donald Trump‘s priority.
Pyongyang said that North Korea’s “accelerated bolstering up” is a “realistic requirement for coping with the military threat of the U.S. and its satellite countries, and that America’s behavior “proves why the DPRK armed forces’ building up of the capability to fight a war with nuclear deterrence as a pivot is a just and inevitable option.”
What Happens Next
The U.S. military will continue to conduct exercises with its South Korean and Japanese counterparts as tensions persist on the Korean Peninsula. The White House said Trump is committed to achieving his denuclearization goal by a “mix of toughness and diplomacy.”
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