A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country’s “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies. Thae Yong Ho is the most high profile North Korean defector in two decades, meaning he is able to give a rare insight into the secretive, authoritarian regime. According to Thae, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is “desperate in maintaining his rule by relying on his [development of] nuclear weapons and ICBM.”
He was using an acronym for intercontinental ballistic missiles — a long range rocket that in theory would be capable of hitting the U.S. “Once he sees that there is any kind of sign of a tank or an imminent threat from America, then he would use his nuclear weapons with ICBM,” he added in an exclusive interview on Sunday. Thae was living in London and serving as North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom when he and his family defected to South Korea and were announced to the world in August. READ MORE
Everybody who wants to play A-bomb should be given a lesson by removing the top of a North Korean mountain. I’m sure there is an isolated one where the surrounding countryside wouldn’t get contaminated. A good one, in the low megaton, not kiloton. It would get everybody’s attention. Should have been done a decade or so ago.