North Korean Foreign Minister Visits Venezuela and Makes Threat About Future Attacks
What concerns is not North Korea’s statement, but where their foreign minister is making the statement from. This would be a huge provocation against the US if they ever sold any of their increasingly capable missiles to Venezuela that could be pointed at the US. Considering the current economic crisis in Venezuela this obviously is not a near term concern:
North Korea is ready to launch new attacks, the country’s foreign minister has said, suggesting the communist regime may take further provocative action following North Korea’s recent nuclear test.
“North Korea is ready to launch another attack in defiance of the provocations by the United States,” North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho said.
He made the remarks during a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Venezuela on Thursday (local time).
Last week North Korea conducted its fifth and most powerful nuclear test, eight months after its fourth nuclear test. [Yonhap]
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Venezuela just happens to be the location for this year’s annual Non-Aligned Movement summit. And Ri isn’t there to sell anything to Venezuela – he’s just trying to drum up support for North Korea’s self-perceived “sovereign” right to build up a nuclear weapons program to defend itself from the evil Americans who are on the verge of a major attack designed to destroy Pyongyang. And the only countries who might be willing to express support are the small, poor, mostly southern hemisphere shytholes that make up the 110 members of the Non-Aligned Movement. And this is also why you see the ROK working hard to bring some of those same shythole countries into the fold with promises of various economic incentives and freebies – with the caveat they disown North Korea. That’s a game the ROK is going to win much more often than not.
@Guitard, I agree fully with what you said, but from a long term perspective if North Korea wanted to commit a huge provocation against the US to make a point, selling missiles to Venezuela would do it.