WASHINGTON: The recent warning from North Korea's foreign minister of a conceivable atmospheric nuclear take a look at over the Pacific Ocean will have to be taken literally, a senior North Korean reputable informed CNN in an interview aired on Wednesday.
"The foreign minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think you should take his words literally," Ri Yong Pil, a senior diplomat in North Korea's Foreign Ministry, informed CNN.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said final month Pyongyang might believe engaging in "the most powerful detonation" of a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean amid emerging tensions with the United States.
The minister made the remark after President Donald Trump warned that North Korea, which has been working to develop nuclear-tipped missiles in a position to hitting the United States, could be utterly destroyed if it threatened America.
CIA leader Mike Pompeo said final week that North Korea might be handiest months away from gaining the ability to hit the United States with nuclear guns.
Experts say an atmospheric take a look at could be some way of demonstrating that capability. All of North Korea's previous nuclear checks were performed underground.
Trump next week will make a visit to Asia all over which he will highlight his marketing campaign to drive North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile systems.
Despite the bellicose rhetoric, White House officials say Trump is in search of a calm resolution of the standoff. But all options, together with army ones, are on the table.
The US Navy said on Wednesday a third plane provider strike staff used to be now sailing in the Asia-Pacific area, joining two other carriers, the Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt.
Navy officials said the Nimitz, which used to be in the past carrying out operations in reinforce of the battle in opposition to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, could be able to reinforce operations in the area prior to heading again to its home port. It said the movement have been long planned.
A number one South Korea opposition determine, Hong Jun-pyo, head of the conservative Liberty Korea Party, informed Reuters in Washington on Wednesday he subsidized Trump's tough stance.
Hong said he had met with individuals of Congress and the management and informed them a majority of South Koreans wanted U.S. tactical nuclear guns, that have been withdrawn from the Korean peninsula in 1992, returned, or for South Korea to develop a nuclear capability of its personal.
"The only way to deal with the situation is by having a nuclear balance between the North and the South," said Hong, the runner-up in South Korea's 2017 presidential election.
Reintroducing nuclear guns remains not likely, no longer least as a result of it could undermine calls for from Seoul and Washington for North Korea to abandon its nuclear systems.
Trump spoke all over his election marketing campaign about the opportunity of South Korea and Japan obtaining nuclear guns, however management officials have performed down the remarks and given no indication of any plan to redeploy tactical guns.
On Wednesday, Trump used to be requested whether or not he would visit the anxious demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea all over his Asia excursion and spoke back enigmatically.
"I'd rather not say, but you'll be surprised," he informed journalists
"The foreign minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think you should take his words literally," Ri Yong Pil, a senior diplomat in North Korea's Foreign Ministry, informed CNN.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said final month Pyongyang might believe engaging in "the most powerful detonation" of a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean amid emerging tensions with the United States.
The minister made the remark after President Donald Trump warned that North Korea, which has been working to develop nuclear-tipped missiles in a position to hitting the United States, could be utterly destroyed if it threatened America.
CIA leader Mike Pompeo said final week that North Korea might be handiest months away from gaining the ability to hit the United States with nuclear guns.
Experts say an atmospheric take a look at could be some way of demonstrating that capability. All of North Korea's previous nuclear checks were performed underground.
Trump next week will make a visit to Asia all over which he will highlight his marketing campaign to drive North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile systems.
Despite the bellicose rhetoric, White House officials say Trump is in search of a calm resolution of the standoff. But all options, together with army ones, are on the table.
The US Navy said on Wednesday a third plane provider strike staff used to be now sailing in the Asia-Pacific area, joining two other carriers, the Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt.
Navy officials said the Nimitz, which used to be in the past carrying out operations in reinforce of the battle in opposition to Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, could be able to reinforce operations in the area prior to heading again to its home port. It said the movement have been long planned.
A number one South Korea opposition determine, Hong Jun-pyo, head of the conservative Liberty Korea Party, informed Reuters in Washington on Wednesday he subsidized Trump's tough stance.
Hong said he had met with individuals of Congress and the management and informed them a majority of South Koreans wanted U.S. tactical nuclear guns, that have been withdrawn from the Korean peninsula in 1992, returned, or for South Korea to develop a nuclear capability of its personal.
"The only way to deal with the situation is by having a nuclear balance between the North and the South," said Hong, the runner-up in South Korea's 2017 presidential election.
Reintroducing nuclear guns remains not likely, no longer least as a result of it could undermine calls for from Seoul and Washington for North Korea to abandon its nuclear systems.
Trump spoke all over his election marketing campaign about the opportunity of South Korea and Japan obtaining nuclear guns, however management officials have performed down the remarks and given no indication of any plan to redeploy tactical guns.
On Wednesday, Trump used to be requested whether or not he would visit the anxious demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea all over his Asia excursion and spoke back enigmatically.
"I'd rather not say, but you'll be surprised," he informed journalists
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