North Koreans Not Moved by Regime’s Claim of War Threat
2017-02-09
Warnings by North Korean authorities that the country is on the verge of war because of moves by the U.S. and South Korea to establish a system of missile defense are being met with contempt by audiences at home, sources say.
In lectures now being held across North Korea, officials from the ruling Korean Workers Party are calling the South’s plans to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system a hostile act aimed at destroying the sanctions-hit, nuclear armed state.
“The authorities are causing an uproar as if war is going to happen soon,” a source in North Hamgyong province told RFA’s Korean Service this week. “But no one believes this method of [political] control anymore.”
Continued: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/moved-02092017154520.html
Again, THAAD seems to be what upsets them so.
