The echoes of the explosions from the Tomahawk missiles launched by the United States from the Mediterranean Sea towards the Shayrat air force base in Syria were heard loud and clear in Pyongyang. Kim Jong Un – although considered by many as an isolated from the outside world – was quick to respond.

A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry in a statement on April 8 termed “this an act of aggression on a sovereign state that can never be tolerated.” The official North Korean statement followed: “The successive U.S. administrations have perpetrated strikes at those countries which do