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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un on Friday ordered preparations for strategic rocket strikes on the US mainland and military bases in the Pacific and South Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The order, issued at an overnight emergency meeting with top army commanders, was a direct response to the use of nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth bombers in ongoing US joint military drills with South Korea, Kim said.<\/p>\n

In the event of any “reckless” US provocation, North Korean forces should “mercilessly strike the US mainland<\/strong>… military bases in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea,” he was quoted as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency.<\/p>\n

With tensions soaring on the Korean peninsula, two B-2s flew training bombing runs over South Korea yesterday to underline US commitment to its military alliance with Seoul in the event of any aggression from the North.<\/p>\n

Kim argued that the stealth bomber flights went beyond a simple demonstration of force and amounted to a US “ultimatum that they will ignite a nuclear war at any cost”.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the threats emanating from Pyongyang have been dismissed as bluster, and North Korea has no proven missile capability to strike the US mainland — or indeed Guam or Hawaii.<\/p>\n

But Washington has opted to match the threats with its own muscle-flexing.<\/p>\n

“We will be prepared — we have to be prepared — to deal with any eventuality,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

“We must make clear that these provocations by the North are taken by us very seriously and we’ll respond to that,” Hagel said, defending the B-2 deployment.<\/p>\n

US military intelligence has noted that the North’s bellicose rhetoric has not, so far, been matched by any overtly provocative troop movements or build-up.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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