{"id":24759,"date":"2017-08-20T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T19:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24759"},"modified":"2017-08-20T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T19:47:12","slug":"north-korea-threatens-merciless-strike-as-us-south-korea-wargames-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24759","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Threatens “Merciless Strike” As US-South Korea Wargames Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea Threatens “Merciless Strike” As US-South Korea Wargames Begin<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Residents of Japanese coastal towns are holding evacuation drills<\/strong><\/a> as North Korea warned Sunday<\/a> that the upcoming US-South Korea military exercises are “reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nearly 130 people took part in the drill in Kotoura, which has a population of 18,000, a town official said. Reuters reports<\/a> that for 10 minutes, people ducked down covering their heads with their arms. <\/strong>Many of those taking part said they were worried. North Korea has in the past threatened to attack Japan, a staunch U.S. ally and host to U.S. military bases.<\/p>\n

As sirens blared from speakers in the town of Kotoura, children playing soccer outside ran to take shelter in a school, along with their parents and their team coach.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been concerned every day that something might fall or a missile could fall in an unexpected place due to North Korea’s missile capabilities,” <\/strong><\/em>said the coach, Akira Hamakawa, 38.<\/p>\n

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As a reminder, Japan is the only country in the world to be attacked with nuclear weapons, <\/em><\/strong>and so perhaps the threats from North Korea today are a little closer to heart than for many around the world.<\/p>\n

Following North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s statement last week that he would “watch a little more the foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees,”<\/strong><\/em> as US-South Korean military exercises begin, CNN reports<\/a> that Pyongyang also declared that its army can target the United States anytime, and neither Guam, Hawaii nor the US mainland can “dodge the merciless strike.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The messages in Rodong Sinmun, the official government newspaper, come a day before the US starts the Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercises with South Korea.<\/p>\n

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North Korea Threatens “Merciless Strike” As US-South Korea Wargames Begin Residents of Japanese coastal towns are holding evacuation drills as North Korea warned Sunday that the upcoming US-South Korea military exercises are “reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war.” Nearly 130 people took part in the drill in Kotoura, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[452,3040,2006,15659,2583,827,862,4318],"class_list":["post-24759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-japan","tag-missiles","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-missiles","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24761,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759\/revisions\/24761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}