N Korea Threatens to Wipe out US

Local Editor

North Korea said Tuesday its nuclear test was not intended to be a provocation or threat, although it laid out plans for a weapons system capable of obliterating the entire United States.

A lengthy commentary by the official KCNA news agency underlined that the North's Wednesday's test was of a powerful miniaturized hydrogen bomb which marked a "new high stage" in the country's search for a credible nuclear deterrent.

The agency's commentary said the test was an indispensable stage on the "normal course" which other countries have taken to the development of a two-stage fission-fusion H-bomb.

Besides, KCNA added that: "The test was neither to "threaten" anyone, nor to "provoke" someone for a certain purpose," insisting that the main focus was on providing a "sure guarantee" of the North's immunity from attack by hostile forces.

It said that first among those forces was the United States, offering an apocalyptic vision of how it would respond to US aggression.

For their part, North Korean scientists and technicians "are in high spirit to detonate H-bombs of hundreds of kilotons and megatons, capable of wiping out the whole territory of the US all at once," the agency explained.

In parallel, outside experts say the yield from Wednesday's test was around six kilotons, while an H-bomb would have been at least 100 times more powerful.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team