North Korea - could kill 90 percent of Americans: ex-CIA chief Woolsey: ARIRANG NEWS

ARIRANG NEWS

Published on 29 Mar 2017

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The United States is stepping up its response to North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threats,... passing new legislation targeting the regime.

This comes as a former head of the CIA has made some extraordinary claims,... saying the North could kill nine out of ten Americans if it wanted to... and it might be time for Washington to consider pre-emptive strikes.

Kim Hyo-sun has this story. The United States should be prepared to launch preemptive strikes on Pyongyang, including the use of nuclear weapons if necessary. 

This is what former CIA chief James Woolsey said in an op-ed piece in the Hill newspaper,... accusing the U.S. media of underestimating the threats posed by the regime. 

Woolsey, who was director of the CIA during the Clinton Administration,... warned that if the North uses a warhead-triggered electromagnetic pulse,... it could kill 90 percent of Americans.

Listing the diverse scenarios of North Korea delivering nuclear weapons,... Woolsey claimed it could attack the U.S. with a missile, a bomb-laden freighter or even a suicide terror mission.

Reflecting the seriousness of North Korean threats,... the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday passed legislation and a resolution on dealing with the regime.

The new legislation includes calls for harsher sanctions on North Korea and re-listing the regime as a state sponsor of terror.

A spokesperson for North Korea's foreign ministry said the U.S. should be blamed if a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula.

The ministry said North Korea had its eyes on Washington as it conducted its joint military drills with Seoul,... while pressing ahead with its anti-North Korean policies.

Amid the heightened nuclear threat,... up to 100 people have been spotted at the North's nuclear test site,... with the leading North Korea-monitoring website 38 North saying the regime could conduct its sixth nuclear test at any time. 

Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.