Watch North Korea Explain Why It Built a ‘Hydrogen Bomb of Justice’
The North Korean government released a video to explain what it claims was a hydrogen bomb test.
A woman dressed in pink calmly leans over a microphone and for more than five minutes -- with barely a glance toward the camera -- tells the world that North Korea has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in order to protect itself from a U.S. invasion.
A woman dressed in pink calmly leans over a microphone and for more than five minutes — with barely a glance toward the camera — tells the world that North Korea has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in order to protect itself from a U.S. invasion.
The test was based “entirely on our wisdom, our technology, and our strength,” she says. And the development of further nuclear capabilities will not be halted until the “vicious U.S. hostile policy” toward Pyongyang is changed. The United States and other world powers have not yet determined whether the magnitude-5.1 seismic event recorded in North Korea on Wednesday was indeed a hydrogen bomb.
The video’s narrator goes on to say the United States is “trying in every way to hinder our building of a thriving nation and improvement of the people’s living and undermine our system.”
And according to her, the “hydrogen bomb of justice … is a just measure nobody can slander.”
“Nothing will be more stupid than laying down a hunting gun before a herd of fierce wolves,” she says.
Watch the entirety of the video below. Foreign Policy is not responsible for the translation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDLAXeS53U
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