Amid Rising Tensions, General Warns US Still Technically at War with North Korea

Amid Rising Tensions, General Warns US Still Technically at War with North Korea

(ANTIMEDIA) Korean Peninsula — As Americans grilled burgers and watched fireworks in celebration of the Fourth of July on Tuesday, North Korea defiantly test-launched its first successful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Analysts say the missile flew higher and farther than any had before and could more than likely have reached Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.

Reporting on the launch on Wednesday, North Korea’s state-run media wrote that Kim Jong-un was “feasting his eyes” on the ICBM during the test and that “with a broad smile on his smile,” the leader encouraged his scientists to “frequently send big and small ‘gift packages’ to the Yankees.”

The same report suggested North Korea is already capable of attaching a large nuclear warhead to its ICBM, a claim analysts almost universally consider unfounded. In a separate article published Wednesday, Kim Jong-un also vowed he would never put his country’s nuclear weapons program on the negotiating table.

The U.S. reaction to the test-fire was immediate. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement that North Korea’s ICBM launch represented “a new escalation of the threat to the United States, our allies and partners, the region, and the world.” He further stated that “global action is required to stop a global threat.”

And action is exactly what the United States and South Korea demonstrated following the ICBM launch. In a statement released jointly, the two allies revealed that immediately following North Korea’s test-fire, the allies’ combined forces launched missiles of their own into the waters off the eastern coast of the Korean Peninsula — a reminder to Kim Jong-un that they have the ability to target his regime any time they wish….More Here

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