North Korea could attack US with nukes ANY DAY, Russia warns – as top politician slams Donald Trump for provoking Kim Jong-un

The warning comes after the US Navy force said it is moving near the Korean peninsula

By Will Stewart
9th April 2017, 4:30 pm
Updated: 9th April 2017, 4:31 pm

DONALD Trump’s move to send warships near the Korean peninsula could provoke a “rash” response from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Russia has warned.

It comes after a US navy said it had sent a strike near North Korea as tensions mount in a show of force against North Korea’s “reckless” nuclear weapons programme.

A senior Moscow politician claimed that after the US strike on Syria with Tomahawk missiles, North Korea could launch an attack at any day.

Senator Viktor Ozerov, chairman Russian upper house’s defence and security committee, said: “In case Pyongyang sees a threat to its security in the US Navy naval presence, it might push the North Korean leadership to further rash action.

He claimed: After Trump’s action in Syria, a US strike on North Korea is possible. Such a risk is not ruled out.

He added: “The US strike on the airbase of the Syrian armed forces, which was not unanimously condemned in the UN Security Council, was explained by threat to the US national security.

“And North Korea can be perceived in Washington as an even bigger threat.”

Ozerov – seen as close to Vladimir Putin – stressed that the United States carried out strikes on Syria’s airfield using alleged chemical attack in Idlib as a pretext.

He said: “North Korea did not sign the convention on chemical weapons prohibition. It might provoke Trump’s strike on North Korea.”

Trump’s move is seen as putting Pyongyang on warning over its refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

Last Wednesday, North Korea reportedly launched a ballistic missile from Sinpho, South Hamgyong province, in the direction of the Sea of Japan.

The country has carried out five nuclear tests – two of them last year – and expert satellite imagery analysis suggests it could well be preparing for a sixth.

North Korea denounced the US strike on Syria as an act of “intolerable aggression” and one that justified “a million times over” its own push toward a credible nuclear deterrent.

Trump ordered the revenge hit against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after dozens died in a suspected chemical gas attack in Idlib province.

Shocking pictures from the location of the attack included a sobbing father clinging on to the bodies of his dead children.

Trump retaliated to the attack, which he described as “an affront to humanity” by launching strikes on a Syrian airbase with the US ambassador to the United Nations saying the country is “prepared to do more”.

Following US action KCNA news agency quoted an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry as saying: “The US missile attack against Syria is a clear and intolerable act of aggression against a sovereign state and we strongly condemn it.

“The reality of today shows that we must stand against power with power and it proves a million times over that our decision to strengthen our nuclear deterrence has been the right choice.”

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