The Hermit Kingdom thinks it has another sabre in the scabbard:
Pyongyang raised tensions a notch by reviving its rhetoric in a commentary in the state-run Minju Joson newspaper today.
“Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means…as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country’s dignity and sovereignty even a bit,” said the commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
It appeared to be the first time that North Korea referred to its nuclear arsenal as “offensive” in nature. Pyongyang has long claimed that its nuclear weapons program is a deterrent and only for self-defense against what it calls US attempts to invade it.
Times change. Tyrannical thugocracies, no so much.
We should do a Chernobyl on them and just build a big sarcophagus over the whole country. Take a peak inside every hundred years or so to see if it’s “cooled off”.
U.S. to NK: “Rest easy, you have nothing… nothing at all that we want. In fact, KJI or KJU (whomever is in power at the time), could you use a few politicians as hostages? (Shh, don’t tell them we don’t want them back.)