North Korea has fired yet another round of threats, according to CNN.com
A statement issued from the Supreme Command of the Korean’s People Army, warned the U.S, Thursday, that U.S. bases in Japan and Guam are now “within striking range.”
"The U.S. should not forget that the Andersen Air Force Base on Guam where the B-52s take off and naval bases in Japan proper and Okinawa where nuclear-powered submarines are launched are within the striking range of the DPRK's precision strike means," said the North Korean military according to CNN. DPRK stands for North Korea’s official name, Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.
Currently, there are no U.S. Navy submarines stationed anywhere in Japan.
Many view this threat as a response to a recent statement from the U.S, who said its B-52 bombers would be making flights over South Korea this week. The U.S. referred to them as annual military exercises.
North Korea took exception to these “exercises” calling them “nuclear blackmail and threat”, according to CNN. Therefore the North felt it needed to “take corresponding military action.”
The back and forth between the two countries is just one more incident in the steady tension between the two. About a month ago, the United Nations toughened sanctions on North Korea, in response to a nuclear test the country issued in February.
The decision led North Korea to make an outright threat against the U.S. and South Korea. The DPRK threatened nuclear attack on both South Korea and the U.S.
According to CNN, the bases in Guam and Japan, can be reached with North Korea’s “conventional weapons.”
According to CNN, Lee Jung-hoon, an international relations professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, believes North Korea’s threats mostly stemmed from the concerns it has about issues within its own country. Jung-hoon feels North Korea “is just firing back.”
"They're doing all this to prop up the regime," Lee said.
