North
Korea claimed evidence had been uncovered suggesting the US transported
chemical weapons to South Korea in preparation for war
Kim Jong-un fears the US wants to launch a chemical weapons attack (Photo: Reuters)
North
Korea has warned it will wipe America "off the face of the Earth" after
accusing the US of planning a chemical weapons attack.
In an
explosive new report published today, the secretive country has claimed
the US is plotting an 'unprecedented disaster' on its nation.
However,
the country says it will not remain a 'passive onlooker' - instead
vowing to destroy the US, or 'empire of evils', in a catastrophic
retaliation.
State newspaper The Rodong Sinmun says: "The DPRK
will never remain a passive onlooker to the moves of the U.S. to provoke
a biochemical war against it but will conclude the standoff with the
U.S., the empire of evils, by wiping it off the face of the Earth.
"The
U.S. must not disregard the warning of the DPRK that its reckless
military moves would lead to its most miserable final doom."
The
report, entitled 'U.S. Biochemical War Plan against Korean Nation under
Fire', claimed the US is plotting a chemical weapons attack on the
country.
Claims were made in a report entitled 'U.S. Biochemical War Plan against Korean Nation under Fire' (Photo: AFP) It claimed that evidence had been uncovered suggesting the
US transported chemical weapons to the South Korean port city of Busan
in preparation for war.
The state newspaper adds: "The U.S. has
fully revealed its criminal scenario to make no scruple of using
biochemical weapons to exterminate the Korean nation in order to realize
its wild ambition for dominating the world.
"Recently, the U.S.
is busy floating the wild rumor about "threat from biochemical weapons"
of the DPRK. Lurking behind this is its sinister design to secure a
pretext for provoking a biochemical war against the DPRK."
For years, Kim Jong-un has claimed the US gov was preparing a biochemical attack on Korean Peninsula (Photo: AFP).North Korea is one of six nations that has not signed the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention
It added: "The South Korean puppet group of traitors should
not run riot, thinking twice about the catastrophic consequences to be
entailed by their treacherous acts of conniving and backing the
thrice-cursed and inhuman moves of the U.S. for igniting a biochemical
war by playing the role of its stooge.
"All Koreans in the north, the south and abroad should turn
out as one in the nation-wide struggle to frustrate the foolhardy
north-targeted war moves of the U.S., the harasser of human peace and
the most brutal mastermind of aggression, and the south Korean puppet
group of traitors toeing the U.S. line."
For years Pyongyang has
claimed the US government was preparing the so-called 'Plan Jupiter', a
biochemical attack on the Korean Peninsula intended to topple the
government of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un .
North Korea is one of six nations that has not signed the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.
The
Nuclear Threat Initiative, a US-based non-profit opposed to the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, estimated in its 2015
report that North Korea possessed somewhere between 2,500 and 5,000 tons
of chemical weapons
The claim came as North Korean soldiers were spotted getting in some R&R by playing volleyball at its nuclear test site this week.
The
astonishingly pin sharp images captured during the latest satellite
flyby of the zone show players out on at least three separate courts at
the same time.
The implication is that it could mean that all the hard work is done and they are just awaiting orders from maniac dictator Kim Jong-un to test fire a nuclear weapon.
They come after speculation reported by MirrorOnline last week
that Pyongyang is preparing for its sixth nuclear test at the North
Portal of the Punggye-ri test site - amid a building political crisis
between Pyongyang and Washington
The photographs were published by 38 North , the widely respected North Korea monitoring station at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.
It
has been observing changing activity at the site over the last eight
weeks - around "the tunnel that North Korea appears to have been
preparing for another nuclear test" - and the concern is that it could
mean they are relaxing before the 'big day'. Satellite footage emerged this week of North Korean soldiers playing volleyball at nuclear test site (Photo: Getty) 38 North reports: "Imagery does show what may be three
volleyball games underway at different locations throughout the
facility, and possibly another volleyball net set up at the command
center area."
Its analysts - Joseph S. Bermudez Jr., Jack Liu and Frank Pabian - claim that there could be two reasons for the unexpected activity at the test site:
The soldiers are on stand-by for an imminent nuclear test "with personnel being allowed some down-time for recreation"
Communist
leader Kim Jong-un is fully aware of the satellite's flyby and this is
part of a deliberate 'deception plan' - "delaying the sixth nuclear test
until a time when a detonation would achieve the greatest political
advantage".
There had been speculation that Jong-un
intended to test fire a bomb - the biggest the country has ever tested -
to coincide with the country's nationwide celebrations last Saturday,
known as "The Day of the Sun".
He had been warned not to provoke action in the region by
US President Donald Trump - with Washington already having warned it is
"ready to hit back with nuclear attacks".
Pyongyang claims to
have miniaturized nuclear warheads for use on missiles - and North Korea
has been conducting a series of ballistic missile launches in recent
months.
38 North reported: "Regardless, satellite imagery
continues to indicate that the Punggye-ri nuclear test site appears able
to conduct a sixth nuclear test at any time once the order is received
from Pyongyang.
"Possible explanations for the most recent
developments are the site and associated preparations for a sixth
nuclear test have transitioned to a 'stand-by' status, with personnel
being allowed some down-time for recreation.
"(Or) Pyongyang has initiated a tactical pause in activity
at the test site as part of an overall deception plan, delaying the
sixth nuclear test until a time when a detonation would achieve the
greatest political advantage."
The US and South Korea held last
month 'Warrior Strike 6' drills, which included disarming and securing
simulated North Korean chemical weapons stockpiles.
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