Despite numerous members of President Donald Trump’s administration making it crystal clear that North Korea’s nuclear missile program shenanigans will no longer be tolerated, communist dictator Kim Jong Un seems intent on calling what he perceives as Trump’s bluff and potentially provoking a global conflagration.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol told a BBC reporter that the country would soon commence provocative missile tests weekly and continue them for the foreseeable future.
“We’ll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis,” Song-Ryol said, adding that any “reckless” U.S. military response could very well result in “all-out war” in the region.
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On Friday, Song-Ryol had told CBS that, “If the U.S. comes up with a dangerous military option, then the first card is in our hands, then we’ll deal with it with our pre-emptive strike.
“This means war,” he added, according to the International Business Times.
He also claimed that the Korean peninsula was embroiled in a “vicious cycle” brought about by U.S. actions that were “disturbing global peace and stability,” as if the North’s blatant refusal to abide by United Nations resolutions expressly forbidding their missile tests and nuclear development had no bearing on the matter.
Meanwhile, as the senior official warned of a potential World War III if their widely condemned and illicit missile tests were opposed militarily by the U.S., The U.K. Telegraph reported on similarly tough comments from Vice President Mike Pence, who arrived in South Korea just hours after the North’s latest failed missile test.
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“Just in the past two weeks, the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and Afghanistan,” Pence said. “North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region.”
Pence also reiterated that “the era of strategic patience is over” regarding North Korea’s illicit nuclear missile program and reaffirmed the “100 percent” support of South Korea by the U.S.
Though they obviously aren’t quite there yet, the ultimate goal of the North Korean regime is to obtain long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the U.S. mainland and be loaded with nuclear warheads.
Kim Jong Un’s regime was thought to be preparing yet another nuclear test for the immediate future, though it remained unclear exactly what sort of response such a test would provoke.
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