The Patriot Post® · After Tests, North Korea's Threats Have New Meaning

It’s February, and that means the United States will once again conduct a joint military exercise with South Korea. And once again, North Korea blustered and announced it’s coming this close to sending the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock to midnight.

This time, though, North Korea’s statement broadcast through its state-run media said it would first strike the house belonging to the president of South Korea, then attempt to strike U.S. bases in South Korea and on the American homeland. North Korea said, “All the powerful strategic and tactical strike means of our revolutionary armed forces will go into preemptive and just operation to beat back the enemy forces to the last man if there is a slight sign of their special operation forces and equipment moving to carry out the so-called ‘beheading operation’ and ‘high-density strike.’”

But these threats come after North Korea claimed to have successfully detonated a miniature H-bomb in January. This month the hermit kingdom test-fired a long-range rocket that is just the size to deliver a nuclear warhead. While it’s easy to laugh off North Korea’s threats as bluffing from a country cut off from the rest of the world, the fact is the country is developing its weapon capabilities — after Bill Clinton supposedly cut them a deal to ensure this kind of action wouldn’t happen.