North Korea will continue to test missiles regularly, and any military action against it by the United States would prompt “all out war”, a senior North Korean official has told the BBC.
North Korea has conducted several missile and nuclear tests in defiance of United Nations sanctions and has said it has developed a missile that can strike the US mainland. Its latest missile test, last Sunday, failed a few seconds after launch.
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US Vice President Mike Pence warned North Korea on Monday that recent US strikes in Syria, one of Pyongyang’s few close allies, and Afghanistan showed that the resolve of American President Donald Trump should not be tested.
We’ll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis. If the US is reckless enough to use military means it would mean from that very day, an all-out war.Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol
North Korean state media last week warned of a nuclear attack on the US at any sign of American aggression, but the White House said there was no evidence it possessed that capability.
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"If the US is planning a military attack against us we will react with a nuclear pre-emptive strike by our own style and method," Han said.
He also said North Korea believed its nuclear weapons protect it from the threat of military action by the US.
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