North Korea plan to attack US mainland revealed in photographs
North Korea has revealed its plans to strike targets in Hawaii and the continental United States in photos taken in Kim Jong-un's military command centre.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
(sitting) convening an urgent operation meeting at 0:30 am on 29 March
2013 at an undisclosed location Photo: EPA
The photos appeared in the state-run Rodong newspaper and were apparently
taken at an "emergency meeting" early on Friday morning. They show
Kim signing the order for North Korea's strategic rocket forces to be on
standby to fire at US targets, the paper said, with large-scale maps and
diagrams in the background.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered strategic rocket forces to be on
standby to strike US and South Korean targets at any time (EPA)
The images show a chart marked "US mainland strike plan" and missile
trajectories that the NK
News web site estimates terminate in Hawaii, Washington DC, Los
Angeles and what they claim is Austin, Texas.
The text on the map, which shows the west coast of North America, says
“Plan to hit the U.S. mainland”
The meeting of Pyongyang's senior military leaders was called after two US B2
bombers, flying out of bases in Missouri, carried out simulated bombing
raids on North Korean targets on an island off the coast of South Korea.
"He finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic
rockets, ordering them to be on standby to fire so that they may strike any
time the US mainland, its military bases in the operational theatres in the
Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea," the
state-run KCNA news agency reported.
A U.S. airforce B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over Pyeongtaek, south of
Seoul, South Korea
It added that the B2 test flights demonstrated Washington's "hostile intent" and said the "reckless" act had gone "beyond the phase of threat and blackmail."
The North's military was placed on its highest alert level earlier this week and a hotline link with the South Korean military was severed.
North Korea has also cut the mobile Internet link for foreign visitors, only weeks after the 3G service was introduced.
North Koreans have held a rally at Kim Il-sung Square in central
Pyongyang in support of military action
Despite the increasingly belligerent rhetoric and new images emerging from the
North Korean regime, analysts believe its missiles are not capable of
striking targets as far away as the US mainland and are not, as yet, capable
of delivering a nuclear payload.
The images of Kim surrounded by his officers and diagrams of targets in the US are designed for a domestic consumption and to demonstrate the young leader's mastery of military affairs, experts believe.
A U.S. airforce B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over Pyeongtaek, south of
Seoul, South Korea
It added that the B2 test flights demonstrated Washington's "hostile intent" and said the "reckless" act had gone "beyond the phase of threat and blackmail."
The North's military was placed on its highest alert level earlier this week and a hotline link with the South Korean military was severed.
North Korea has also cut the mobile Internet link for foreign visitors, only weeks after the 3G service was introduced.
The images of Kim surrounded by his officers and diagrams of targets in the US are designed for a domestic consumption and to demonstrate the young leader's mastery of military affairs, experts believe.
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