Seoul: North Korea says a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out at ...
Seoul: North Korea says a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula has become a matter of when, not if, as it continued to lash out at a massive joint military exercise between the US and South Korea involving hundreds of advanced warplanes.
In comments attributed to an unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesperson, North Korea also claimed high-ranked US officials, including CIA Director Mike Pompeo, have further confirmed American intent for war with a series of "bellicose remarks".
Pompeo said on Saturday that US intelligence agencies believe North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doesn't have a good idea about how tenuous his situation is domestically and internationally.
The North's spokesperson said Pompeo provoked the country by "impudently criticising our supreme leadership which is the heart of our people".
"The large-scale nuclear war exercises conducted by the US in succession are creating touch-and-go situation on the Korean peninsula and series of violent war remarks coming from the US high-level politicians amid such circumstances have made an outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula an established fact. The remaining question now is: when will the war break out," the spokesperson said.
"We do not wish for a war but shall not hide from it, and should the US miscalculate our patience and light the fuse for a nuclear war, we will surely make the US dearly pay the consequences with our mighty nuclear force which we have consistently strengthened."
-Source: News Agency
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