North Korea 'to test nuclear warhead soon', says Kim Jong Un

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North Korea 'to test nuclear warhead soon', says Kim Jong Un



PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country will soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA news agency has reported.

The agency said that the tests would “be conducted in a short time to further enhance the reliance of nuclear attack capability”, and that Kim had “instructed the relevant section to make prearrangement for them to the last detail”.

Recently Pyongyang has been issuing belligerent statements almost daily, after coming under new United Nations sanctions.

Last month the UN Security Council approved tightened measures against North Korea after a nuclear test in January and the launch of a long-range rocket last month.

US and South Korean experts have said the general consensus was that the North had not yet succesfully miniaturised a nuclear warhead to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Last week however, Kim said that his country had indeed achieved that step.

Western experts also believe that there have been no tests to proved it has mastered the re-entry technology needed to bring a payload back into the atmosphere.

Tensions are high on the Korean peninsula as South Korean and US troops stage annual military exercises that Seoul has described as the largest ever.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-15

[canuckamuck]

And the world will say oh that's terrible, and next year we will see he is at the next step and still threatening. Same same Iran.

[Katipo]

That psychopathic fat ball of lard is responsible for countless deaths in his own country. Much like his father, and father before him. This regime really needs to be put down.

[Geoffggi]

If he needs a good place to test this bomb may I suggest PYONGYANG as a good place to start...!!!

It is about time someone put an end to this reprobates ranting's.

[Sydebolle]

Mentioned earlier on. This clown is threatening the world - in third generation meanwhile. Get the Americans off South Korea and North Korea will implode on its own. But as long as the grandson of the Great Leader rattles the cage, followed by 6 nations talks and an ultimate cheque over a few hundred million dollars for humanitarian reasons ......... oh well, the boys in Washington will never give it!

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N. Korea's Kim warns of impending nuclear and rocket tests
By HYUNG-JIN KIM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned of impending tests of a nuclear warhead explosion and ballistic missiles capable of carrying atomic warheads, state media reported Tuesday, in an escalation of threats against Seoul and Washington.

Kim issued the order for the tests "in a short time," according to the Korean Central News Agency. The KCNA dispatch did not say if Kim gave specific dates for the tests.

The announcement comes as North Korea said it had mastered a key remaining technology needed to develop a reliable long-range missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland.

It is unclear if the tests would happen soon, given that any tests would likely invite harsher international sanctions after the country was hit by the toughest U.N. Security Council sanctions in two decades in early March for a nuclear test and long-range rocket launch conducted earlier this year.

In the past, North Korea has typically conducted nuclear tests and rocket launches every three to four years.

Kim's threats came as his country furiously reacts to ongoing annual military drills by Seoul and Washington, which Pyongyang views as an invasion rehearsal.

Kim said "a nuclear warhead explosion test and a test-fire of several kinds of ballistic rockets able to carry nuclear warheads will be conducted in a short time to further enhance the reliance of nuclear attack capability," according to KCNA.

He made the comments while guiding a successful simulated test of a re-entry vehicle, which is needed to return a warhead safely back into the Earth's atmosphere from a long-range missile launch.

Information from secretive, authoritarian North Korea is often impossible to confirm and there is virtually no way to check how genuine its claims are on developing re-entry vehicle technology.

South Korean defense officials and many outside experts have said the North does not yet have a workable re-entry vehicle, meaning the country does not have a reliable missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

Pyongyang often makes fiery warlike rhetoric in times of tension with the outside world.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-03-15

[nottocus]

Trump him.

[soalbundy]

They will have the miniaturisation sorted out as soon as the next shipment of sticky tape arrives.

[Khon Kaen Dave]

Repeat of previous post.This idiot must be assassinated.

[trogers]

Repeat of previous post.This idiot must be assassinated.

No need. He most likely will blow himself up...

[Redline]

Mentioned earlier on. This clown is threatening the world - in third generation meanwhile. Get the Americans off South Korea and North Korea will implode on its own. But as long as the grandson of the Great Leader rattles the cage, followed by 6 nations talks and an ultimate cheque over a few hundred million dollars for humanitarian reasons ......... oh well, the boys in Washington will never give it!

More than likely the Americans are covering your county's ass. And, they have probably saved your county's ass in the past, even though they didn't need to

[Dutch Dennis]

If he needs a good place to test this bomb may I suggest PYONGYANG as a good place to start...!!!

It is about time someone put an end to this reprobates ranting's.

I'd say his livingroom and keep him in there just to let him check if it actually works, you know. you got to do it yourself if you want it to be done properly.

[sambum]

Mentioned earlier on. This clown is threatening the world - in third generation meanwhile. Get the Americans off South Korea and North Korea will implode on its own. But as long as the grandson of the Great Leader rattles the cage, followed by 6 nations talks and an ultimate cheque over a few hundred million dollars for humanitarian reasons ......... oh well, the boys in Washington will never give it!

More than likely the Americans are covering your county's ass. And, they have probably saved your county's ass in the past, even though they didn't need to

Had to happen I suppose - the anti American brigade getting the world's policeman all wound up again!

Surprised nobody has brought Thaksin into the thread yet - still there's time yet!

[PETERTHEEATER]

One day, when they have the technology, the NKs will replace the pen and paper notebooks of the illustrious leader's bowel hangers with Dictaphones

[BlindMagician]

As his great daddy used to say, or rather sing,..."I'm sooo lonely..."

[BlindMagician]

Mentioned earlier on. This clown is threatening the world - in third generation meanwhile. Get the Americans off South Korea and North Korea will implode on its own. But as long as the grandson of the Great Leader rattles the cage, followed by 6 nations talks and an ultimate cheque over a few hundred million dollars for humanitarian reasons ......... oh well, the boys in Washington will never give it!

More than likely the Americans are covering your county's ass. And, they have probably saved your county's ass in the past, even though they didn't need to

Had to happen I suppose - the anti American brigade getting the world's policeman all wound up again!

Surprised nobody has brought Thaksin into the thread yet - still there's time yet!

You just have...der!