/ 01 September 2023

North Korea practices for the end times

Image source: Getty
Image source: Getty

North Korean state media says it fired 2 short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the country’s east coast on Wednesday night to simulate nuclear strikes on the South. Yikes… In an unusually detailed description of how it would approach Armageddon, the Hermit Kingdom said it would deploy nuclear weapons on military targets in the South if provoked and then seek to occupy “the whole territory of the southern half” of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea has launched a record number of missile tests in recent times, and the latest ones come as the US and the South wrap up their annual joint military drills, which really get up dictator Kim Jong Un’s nose. The uptick in activity led neighbouring Japan to be on alert – it’s even disrupted the Boomers’ Basketball World Cup campaign… Japanese PM Fumio Kishida criticised the latest launches for threatening not only his country’s stability, but the entire world’s.

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