A top US General has said that in a very short time North
Korea would be able to attack the US mainland with its nuclear weapons.
During a Congressional hearing of the Armed Services
Committee of the US Senate, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph
Dunford said that North Korea is now capable of launching a nuclear attack on
the United States.
"It is the US military's judgement that it is a matter
of a "very short time" before North Korea is able to attack the
US", a report quoted him saying. Dunford informed the Congress that as
North Korea has ratcheted up its war rhetoric to unprecedented levels, the US
should plan accordingly.
Dunford, who is a Marine Corps General, added that the US
Defence establishment is deploying 21 more missile interceptors in addition to
44 already in place and has spruced up intelligence on North Korea. While
saying so, Dunford said that despite escalating its war rhetoric, North Korea
has not changed its military posturing and the US forces are watching it
closely.
While speaking at the UNGA on September 19, Trump warned
that if the United States was forced to defend itself or its allies, it would
have no choice but to totally annihilate North Korea adding that the Rocket Man
was on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.
ROCKET-MAN WHO?
Trump invented the term 'Rocket Man' to describe Kim Jong-Un
after a series of missile and nuclear tests by North Korea under his watch.
In response to Trump's warning, Kim described him as a
gangster fond of playing with fire and displaying an unprecedented rude
nonsense one had never heard from any of his predecessors.
He further said that Trump was a mentally deranged dotard, a
frightened dog who barked louder and North Korea knew how to tame him. Kim
concluded his statement by saying that the North Korean fire would surely and
definitely tame Donald Trump. The country later also warned that it may soon
detonate its most powerful hydrogen bomb yet over the Pacific.
This prompted Trump to term Kim a madman. He said that Kim
Jong-Un was a madman who didn't mind starving or killing his own people and for
his acts he would be tested and punished like never before. Trump further added
that de-nuclearisation was the only acceptable future of North Korea and later
on signed an Executive Order imposing more sanctions on the nation.
Earlier this month, on September 3, North Korea had detonated
a hydrogen bomb in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date and
Pyongyang had warned of more 'gift packages' for Washington which came true
when it test fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan on
September 15.
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