Pyongyang threatens preventive nuclear strike on U.S. sites
PYONGYANG. March 7 (Interfax) - North Korea threatened on Thursday to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on the United States.
"Now that the U.S. is set to light the fuse for a nuclear war, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will exercise the right to a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors and to defend the supreme interests of the country," a North Korean Foreign Ministry statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency said.
North Korea accused Washington of making the war games in South Korea a bridgehead for nuclear and conventional weapon strikes on its territory.
Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary that North Korea had the right to a preemptive nuclear strike on the United States.
The article said North Korea was a nuclear country and U.S. imperialists did not have the preventive strike monopoly. It said the U.S. was trying to intimidate North Korea with the deployment of B52 bombers and other hardware in South Korea, but North Korea would stay cool even if it faced more powerful weapons.
North Korea warned the U.S. and South Korea that the war would spill over the Korean Peninsula if they carried on the aggression against the DPRK. The North Korean army, including its strategic rocket forces, would reach the territory of the United States - the international reactionary stronghold, the article said.