North Korea Warns US War Reinforcements Will Be 'Wiped Out' after Stealth Jet Deployment to Japan
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - North Korea's state media warned Sunday any US military reinforcements in the event of a war will be "wiped out," as it took issue with Washington's additional deployment of stealth fighter jets to Japan earlier this month.
A commentary carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency criticized the recent US deployment of a squadron of F-35B fighters to an air base in Iwakuni, Japan, accusing Washington of increasing uncertainties for a nuclear war, Yonhap news agency reported.
"The additional deployment of offensive war reinforcements to cope with contingency in the Korean peninsula is hourly increasing the unpredictability of actual armed conflict and a nuclear war," it said. "The US desperate moves of military adventurism ... provide the DPRK with reasonable justification and the urgent need to give tougher warning of action."
DPRK stands for the North's official name -- the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
"The US anti-communist outposts ... are within the constant sighting and striking range of the DPRK's indefinite forces," it said. "Any war reinforcements of the US will be completely contained and wiped out."
