North Korea threatens nuclear strike as US, Seoul begin military exercise

London : North Korea has threatened to turn Washington and Seoul into ‘flames and ashes’ as the joint military drills between the two nations began today and warned of an indiscriminate pre-emptive nuclear strike. Such threats from Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un has been a common one, since he took power after the dead of his dictator father in 2011. His threat of using nuclear strikes tends to increase when Washington and Seoul stage what they call annual defensive springtime war games. Pyongyang said that the drills between the two allies are rehearsals for invading. The country’s National Defence Commission threatened against targets in the Seoul, US bases in the Pacific and the US mainland in an assumption that its enemies were working to infringe upon the dignity, sovereignty and vital rights of North Korea. “If we push the buttons to annihilate the enemies even right now, all bases of provocations will be reduced to seas in flames and ashes in a moment,” the North’s statement said, reported Guardian.Meanwhile, there is considerable debate outside whether Pyongyang is even capable of the kind of strikes it threatens.