Pyongyang will “hit the U.S. first” with nuclear arms should Washington show any signs of launching pre-emptive strikes, North Korea said on Tuesday, two days after the U.S. decided to deploy the Carl Vinson Strike Group towards the Korean Peninsula.
Published four days after U.S. cruise missile strikes against Syria, the North Korean editorial said the American continent is within range of its nuclear weapons, warning that “pre-emptive strike is not an exclusive right of the U.S."
Pyongyang will “hit the U.S. first” with nuclear arms should Washington show any signs of launching pre-emptive strikes, North Korea said on Tuesday, two days after the U.S. decided to deploy the Carl Vinson Strike Group towards the Korean Peninsula.
Published four days after U.S. cruise missile strikes against Syria, the North Korean editorial said the American continent is within range of its nuclear weapons, warning that “pre-emptive strike is not an exclusive right of the U.S."
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