North Korea Says US Trying to ‘Ignite a Nuclear War’

North Korea slammed former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last week, and stated that it remains “fully ready” for nuclear war.

 

As previously noted, former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta wrote in his new memoirs that the U.S. planned to use nuclear weapons “if necessary” in the event of a North Korean invasion of South Korea.

 

“If North Korea moved across the border, our war plans called for the senior American general on the peninsula to take command of all U.S. and South Korean forces and defend South Korea—including by the use of nuclear weapons, if necessary. Our forces maintained a readiness posture that allowed them to ‘fight tonight,’” Panetta wrote in Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace.

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