North Korea Update: Communist Country Declares War Against America, Says USA Did It First [VIDEO]
The United States is now at war with North Korea. At least that is what a top North Korean diplomat has stated. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, Han Song Ryol, director-general of the U.S. affairs department at North Korea's Foreign Ministry, expressed how the Asian Communist country is aghast at the recent sanctions the U.S. has initiated against its leader, Kim Jong-un.
The United States has recently placed the young and brash North Korean leader on a list of sanctioned individuals. Kim's name was added to the notorious list due to his alleged human rights abuses, most of which were documented by the Human Rights Commission of the United States.
It is this rather personal attack against Kim that ultimately pushed the Asian country to declare war against America. Numerous restrictions have already been in place against the country, but Washington's July 6 announcement was the first time that Kim became the direct recipient of the sanctions.
"The Obama administration went so far to have the impudence to challenge the supreme dignity of the DPRK in order to get rid of its unfavorable position during the political and military showdown with the DPRK. The United States has crossed the red line in our showdown. We regard this thrice-cursed crime as a declaration of war," Han said.
Despite its strong rhetoric, however, the North Korean diplomat was quick to point out that the U.S. was the one which brought the declaration of war upon itself. Han particularly took issue with the upcoming U.S.-South Korean military exercises that are scheduled for next month.
"By doing these kinds of vicious and hostile acts toward the DPRK, the U.S. has already declared war against the DPRK. So it is our self-defensive right and justifiable action to respond in a very hard way," the diplomat said.
As for its nuclear weapons, the Asian Communist country asserted that it was the United States which started the deadly military program anyway. Thus, the blame for North Korea's military current nuclear arsenal must fall on the United States.
"It is not us, it is the United States that first developed nuclear weapons, who first deployed them and who first used them against humankind," Han said.
"And on the issue of missiles and rockets, which are to deliver nuclear warheads and conventional weapons warheads, it is none other than the United States who first developed it and who first used it."
