While North Korea has repeatedly threatened to strike the United States, a threat made yesterday to target the United States was significantly more explicit.
A statement from the North Korean National Defense Commission referred to the United States as the “sworn enemy of the Korean people” and has ruled out talks over “denuclearization.”
Though the Obama administration has made efforts to deal with the impoverished country diplomatically, a recent rocket test proves that its plans to strike the United States might one day be possible.
Joel Wit is a visiting fellow at the U.S.-Korea Institute at John’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the author of “Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis.”
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