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Eugene Hoshiko
TOUGH TALK

North Korea threatens to sink Japan 'into the sea' and beat the US 'like a rabid dog'

Pyongyang is unhappy after being hit with fresh UN sanctions.

A NORTH KOREAN organisation demanded today that the United States be “beaten to death” like a “rabid dog” for spearheading fresh UN sanctions on Pyongyang over its latest nuclear test, adding ally Japan should be “sunken into the sea”.

The UN Security Council unanimously imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the country on Monday, banning it from trading in textiles and restricting its oil imports, a week after Pyongyang tested what it said was a hydrogen bomb small enough to fit onto a missile, raising tensions on the peninsula and globally.

missile-north-korea People watch a TV screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch in Seoul, South Korea. AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

“Ashes and darkness”

A spokesman for the North’s Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (KAPPC) denounced the “heinous sanctions resolution” and said there were mounting calls for strong retaliation against the US and its allies.

“The army and people of the DPRK are unanimously demanding that the Yankees, chief culprit in cooking up the ‘sanctions resolution’, be beaten to death as a stick is fit for a rabid dog,” he said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

Now is the time to annihilate the US imperialist aggressors. Let’s reduce the US mainland into ashes and darkness.

North Korea has a long history of issuing dramatic threats against the US and its allies but not carrying them out.

According to South Korea’s unification ministry, the KAPPC acts as “a window for improving relations with countries like the US and Japan… while campaigning to change North Korea’s closed and negative image”.

But the KAPPC statement accused Tokyo of “dancing to the tune of the US” and warned of a “telling blow” against Japan, noting the missile test that overflew the Asian island nation last month.

The North’s launch of an intermediate range missile over Hokkaido triggered alarm bells, sparking emergency sirens and mass text alerts in northern Japan.

“The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche,” KAPPC warned, referring to the North’s national philosophy of “Juche” or self-reliance.

Japan Security Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Koji Sasahara Koji Sasahara

Speaking during a visit to India, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the two countries would “show a firm response” to North Korea.

The international community must fully implement the recently adopted UN Security Council resolutions and force North Korea to change its policy.

North Korea says it needs nuclear weapons to protect itself from “hostile” US forces.

Experts believe Pyongyang’s weapons programme has made rapid progress under leader Kim Jong-Un, with previous sanctions having done little to deter it.

© – AFP, 2017

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