Hostile Rhetoric continues to pour out of North Korea today as North Korea threatened the United States with attack on our bases on Guam and Okinawa.
“The U.S. should not forget that the Anderson Air Force Base on Guam, where B-52s take off, and naval bases in Japan proper and Okinawa, where nuclear-powered submarines are launched, are within the striking range of the DPRK’s precision strike means,” an un-named spokesman for North Korea’s Supreme Command told their Central News Agency on Thursday.
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The threats on Guam, Okinawa and elsewhere were leveled because of the B-52 and Nuclear submarine training missions that are a part of the joint military drills called “Foal Eagle” taking place in South Korea all this month and the next.
Also, on Thursday, the North Korean government has resurrected the air raid drills that were common up until the 1990s. The air raid warning was broadcast throughout the country warning the military to take measures against an air raid strike and an American-led invasion. The North used these drills in the past to instill solidarity and a perceived threat into their population.
Even though nuclear submarines and B-52s regularly take part in the joint drills on the Korean peninsula, this year, their participation was high-lighted in response to the nuclear and missile threats that the North Koreans have been releasing to the media because of increased sanctions placed on them by the U.N. Security Council.
On Wednesday, 32,000 computers in South Korea were hacked, shutting down the South’s two largest public broadcasters, a news cable channel and three banks. Those are now back up and running and the source has been identified. South Korean regulators initially believed that the North Koreans were behind the attacks but, further investigation places the country of origin for the hackings in China. The North Koreans have used Chinese addresses to carry out computer attacks in the past however.