- US and South Korean officials say North Korea has fired ballistic missiles
- The missiles were fired into the sea off its east coast
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also reportedly said that they could bomb destroy New York City with an H-bomb
Authorities from the government of South Korea and the United States said North Korea has fired ballistic missiles into the sea.
BBC said in a breaking news that the missile “launched off the east coast, flew about 800km (500 miles) and fell into the water.”
The isolated communist Korea neither denied or accepted the claim.
Photo Credit: BBC
This is amid the heightening tensions again between North Korea and the United States.
According to a USA Today story, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened a “hydrogen bombing” in the US business district, New York City.
“All the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes,” USA Today quoted a report from the state-run media of North Korea.
Some analysts say that North Korea is much braver now in issuing spicier remarks because it has strong nuclear weapons to back it up.
“The larger that their arsenal gets, the more emboldened they are,” Assistant Director Jenny Town of U.S.-Korea Institute at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University said.
“They’re putting more things on the table now in terms of their responses and ratcheting up the rhetoric.”
Just this week, President Barack Obama issued new sanctions against North Korea. The order freezes all public assets of secluded nation in the United States and prohibits economic transaction with the country and entities connected to it.
An American student was also sentenced to 15 years of “hard labor” by the North Korean government after it “tried” to steal propaganda materials from a hotel in Pyongyang during his visit last New Year.
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