By Emily Jacobs
North Korea’s embassy in Moscow has threatened to use its nation’s nuclear weapons against the United States in what they claim would be “a particularly sensational event,” a Russian state-owned news agency reports.
The reporting comes from the TASS news agency, a state-owned wire service known largely as a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin, which claims the embassy sent them the threat in the form of a statement over the weekend.
The agency quotes the embassy as stating, “This year, the U.S. military has been carrying out various kinds of military maneuvers in South Korea and its vicinity with the purpose of striking North Korea quickly.”
“A new round of the Korean War will add a particularly sensational event to the history of mankind, which will put an end to another empire, whose name is the United States,” it continues.
While the statement has not been reported elsewhere, it was released in the days ahead of the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.
The war began on June 25, 1950, when Chinese- and Soviet-backed forces from the North invaded the South. Within weeks, the US engaged in the conflict on behalf of the South, arguing it was a fight against communism on the international stage.
The Hermit Kingdom has been vocal in recent days about its efforts to go after its enemy to the south, using its own state-run news agency to announce it is amassing a pile of anti-South propaganda leaflets “as big as a mountain.”
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