North Korea's nuclear attack threat 'accelerating'.

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Meeshika Sharma
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The threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating, U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday, accusing the North of illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear programs and pledging to repel any strike.

On his second visit to North Korea, In remarks with South Korean Defence Minister Song Young-moo at his side, Mattis said North Korea engages in "outlaw" behaviour and that the U.S. will never accept a nuclear North.

He added that regardless of what the North might try, it is overmatched by the firepower and cohesiveness of the decades-old U.S.-South Korean alliance.

He said, "North Korea has accelerated the threat that it poses to its neighbours and the world through its illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear weapons programs, adding that U.S.-South Korean military and diplomatic collaboration thus has taken on "a new urgency."

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"I cannot imagine a condition under which the United States would accept North Korea as a nuclear power, "he said.

"With that said," he added, "make no mistake -- any attack on the United States or our allies will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response that is effective and overwhelming."

 

 

 

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