The North Korean video that angers the world

The North Korean video that angers the world

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10675258_sNorth Korea has completed its preparations for a nuclear test shrugging off all the international concerns. The secluded country has made another defiant step – it has posted a video on YouTube depicting a U.S city resembling New York being hit by a missile

The footage was uploaded on Saturday by the North’s official website, Uriminzokkiri, which distributes news and propaganda from the state media.

The video is shot as a dream sequence, with a young man seeing himself on board a North Korean space shuttle launched into orbit by the same type of rocket Pyongyang successfully tested last December.

As the shuttle circles the globe – to the tune of “We Are the World” – the video zooms in on countries below, including a joyfully re-unified Korea.

The focus then switches to a city – shrouded in the US flag – under apparent missile attack with its skyscrapers, including what appears to be the Empire State Building, either on fire or in ruins.

“Somewhere in the United States, black clouds of smoke are billowing,” runs the caption across the screen.

“It seems that the nest of wickedness is ablaze with the fire started by itself,” it added.

The video ends with the young man concluding that his dream will “surely come true”.

“Despite all kinds of attempts by imperialists to isolate and crush us … never will anyone be able to stop the people marching toward a final victory,” it said.

The North is expected to conduct its nuclear test as a defiant response to UN sanctions imposed after its December rocket launch.
For years, the United States and the international community have tried to negotiate an end to North Korea’s nuclear and missile development and its export of ballistic missile technology. Those efforts have been replete with periods of crisis, stalemate, and tentative progress towards denuclearization, and North Korea has long been a key challenge for the global nuclear nonproliferation regime.

The United States has pursued a variety of policy responses to the proliferation challenges posed by North Korea, including military cooperation with U.S. allies in the region, wide-ranging sanctions, and non-proliferation mechanisms such as export controls. The United States also engaged in two major diplomatic initiatives in which North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons efforts in return for aid.

All efforts to persuade Nort Korea to shut down its nuclear progaremm failed.

The footage was removed from YouTube