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04-16-2017, 05:34 AM
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**rth Korea stands up to US
Promises ‘nuclear justice’; says it is prepared to respond
to an all-out war; stages giant show of military strength; displays latest hardware including new ICBMs or prototypes, submarine-launched ballistic missile PYONGYANG: **rth Korea’s ******* of war rolled through Pyongyang streets Saturday and it promised "nuclear justice" in response to any atomic attack as leader Kim Jong-Un mounted a spectacular show of strength. Tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions are stretched to the limit, with US President Donald Trump deploying an aircraft carrier battle group to the region. After a 21-gun salute, tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen goose-stepped through Kim Il-Sung Square turning their eyes towards the high balcony from where Kim watched, flanked by ******rs and officials. A total of 56 missiles of 10 different types were displayed, culminating in e**rmous rockets on articulated trailers and on 16-wheeler vehicles. Ostensibly Saturday´s event was to mark the 105th anniversary of Kim Il-Sung’s birth -- a date k**wn as the "Day of the Sun" in the **rth -- and a squadron of warplanes flew overhead forming the number. But it was also intended to send an unmistakable message to Washington about the isolated country’s military might. Kim’s close aide Choe Ryong-Hae declared that the **rth was a "powerful nuclear-armed state in the Orient and Asia’s leader in rocketry". It could "beat down enemies with the power of nuclear justice", he said, and was "prepared to respond to an all-out war with an all-out war. "We are ready to hit back with nuclear attacks of our own style against any nuclear attacks," he said. After dis*****ing the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and an accompanying battle group to the Korean peninsula Trump told the Fox Business Network: "We are sending an armada." He is doing the wrong thing," he added of Kim. "He’s making a big mistake." China, the **rth’s sole major ally, and Russia have both urged restraint, with Beijing’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi warning Friday that "conflict could break out at any moment". The hardware displayed Saturday included what appeared to be new ICBMs or prototypes, and the Pukkuksong submarine-launched ballistic missile, which Pyongyang successfully test-fired last August, reports and analysts said. The rockets carried on articulated trailers appeared to be longer than the **rth’s existing KN-08 or KN-14 missiles, analysts said. Kim did **t address the rally himself on Saturday, instead waving and smiling as ecstatic crowds of flag- and flower-bearing civilians -- men in suits, women in traditional hanbok dresses -- filed past him behind the military display. "Long live!" they chanted, some in tears. أكثر... 
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