Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON, 15th March. US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said on Tuesday that “A 7th nuclear test would be a dangerous provocation that would itself constitute a significant threat to peace and security in the region.”
US raised concern over 7th nuclear test by North Korea, urged the international community to take concerted action.
Ned Price said, “DPRK has finalized all of the steps it would need to take to conduct what would be its 7th nuclear test. A 7th nuclear test would be a dangerous provocation that would itself constitute a significant threat to peace and security in the region.”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s assertion on September 8 that his country will never abandon its nuclear weapons and the growing speculations that it is preparing for its seventh nuclear explosion has raised many questions in South Korea and its “Security Treaty partner” United States.
Kim has made his “rubber-stamp parliament” pass a new law that spells out conditions where North Korea would be inclined to use its nuclear weapons.
He noted that the law requires North Korea’s military to “automatically” execute nuclear strikes against enemy forces, including their “starting point of provocation and the command,” if Pyongyang’s leadership comes under attack.
The new law stated that North Korea could use nukes to prevent an unspecified “catastrophic crisis” for its government and people. In other words, Pyongyang will not hesitate to use its nuclear weapons when threatened proactively.
Kim referred to the region of the United States and its allies. He underscored the growing animosity in the area as he accelerates the expansion of his nuclear weapons and missiles program.
Ned Price urged “The entire world would need to respond in a case like that. Countries on the Security Council, especially the Permanent Five, we would hope to see, concerted action in response to such a destabilising event,”
South Korea, the United States, and Japan condemned the tests by DPRK.
North Korea fired two “strategic cruise missiles” from a submarine in waters off its east coast over the weekend in an apparent protest over a regular South Korea-US combined military exercise to begin this week, state media said on Monday, reported Yonhap News Agency.
According to the official Korean Central News Agency, the missiles were fired from 8.24 Yongung in waters off Kyongpho Bay in the East Sea in an underwater launched drill held at Sunday.
Washington and Seoul are scheduled to kick off the Freedom Shield (FS) exercise Monday for an 11-day run, along with a large-scale field manoeuvre, called the Warrior Shield.
North Korea has decried the exercise as “preparations for a war of aggression” against it.
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