North Korea Tests ‘High-Thrust’ Rocket Engine For Satellite Launch

The engine would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite-launch capability, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. Kim makes sure to take care of his nation’s military, regardless of hard times for the North Korean people.

Amano played a leading role in negotiating the landmark nuclear agreement reached between world powers and Iran in 2015 to scale back Tehran’s nuclear program.

The Trump administration is reportedly considering imposing broad sanctions targeted toward North Korea.

Pyongyang has long claimed it was compelled to develop nuclear weapons to cope with USA threats of aggression.

North Korea responded to Tillerson’s threats insisting it would show “no mercy” and urged the USA to rethink their strategy.

Tillerson opened up his six-day official trip to Asia announcing that the United States would consider “all options” to deal with the circumstances that could evolve on the Korean Peninsula, including arming regional allies with nukes.

“Pyongyang has the will and capability to fully respond to any war the USA would like to ignite”, said an unnamed spokesman for foreign ministry of North Korea in response to those remarks in a statement released by the state-run news agency KCNA.

Tillerson affirmed that there will be no discussions with North Korea until they begin to denuclearise their arsenal. The recommendations are being put together by the president’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster. North Korea recently laid out new laws to facilitate foreign tourism and investment.

The North has boosted plutonium supplies by reactivating its once-mothballed nuclear reactor in Yongbyon. Easier targets would be North Korea’s missile facilities.

Defence chiefs fear the high-powered engine could be used to fire intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching USA shores.

However, it might be hard to track down those mobile systems.

In response, the North Korean government said it’s prepared for “any war” the USA wants.

Albright cautioned that a pre-emptive strike carries the risk of “a conventional war involving North and South Korea with large numbers of casualties”. “You are talking about hundreds of thousands of casualties, if not millions”. -South Korea joint military drills. One would be large-scale environmental contamination, affecting all of North Korea. “As long as Kim Jong Un’s regime is in place, there is no solution for [the North Korean nuclear issue] and any kind of compromises would only serve Kim”, Thae added.