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Only after a brief pause, that claimed praise from the US Secretary of State, both the United States and North Korea have returned to their war rhetoric over the latest missile launch from North Korea that flew through the airspace of Japan and traveled 2700km before plunging into the sea. After the launch, the US President Donald Trump returned to its usual threatening. He said in a statement, “The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: this regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior. Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table.”
However, that didn’t seem to deter North Korea from issuing threats. Here is the statement from KCNA news agency, which is the official mouthpiece of the North Korean regime, “Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction over the successful launching. Praising the Hwasong artillerymen of the Strategic Force for being well versed in the newly equipped ultra-modern rocket system and properly operating it, he said the drill would offer them an opportunity for gaining a good experience in their rocket operation for an actual war. Noting that the current ballistic rocket launching drill like a real war is the first step of the military operation of the KPA in the Pacific and a meaningful prelude to containing Guam, advanced base of invasion, he said that it is necessary to positively push forward the work for putting the strategic force on a modern basis by conducting more ballistic rocket launching drills with the Pacific as a target in the future.”
While the United Nation’s Security Council (UNSC) condemned the missile launch by the North, it is far from clear at this point, how a peace in the peninsula can be achieved.
