Warnings of a pre-emptive nuclear strike by Kim Jong-un bear left many Americans jittery. Here’s what he is and isn’t capable ofNorth Korea has raised the prospect of a pre-emptive strike with nuclear weapons in an official statement. However,there is no imminent danger from North Korea to the US mainland. Our military personnel and facilities in the Asia-Pacific and our allies such as South Korea, Japan, and Australia,are more vulnerable. But US military capabilities, both conventional and nuclear, or are potent forms of deterrence against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). whether we worry,it should be about the DPRK’s ceaseless efforts to develop more advanced nuclear technology and other weapons of mass destruction, including biological and chemical ones.
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Source: theguardian.com