Kim Jong-Un, the North Korean leader, has said in an unprecedented televised statement, that North Korea could test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean in response to US president Donald Trump’s threats of military action over his previous atomic tests.
Trump had threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea in a recent speech to the UN. He had said that Kim was “obviously a mad man who would be tested like never before”. In response, Kim accused Trump of being “mentally deranged and pay dearly for his threats”. If North Korea follows through with the threat of testing a hydrogen bomb, it would be the first nuclear weapon to be tested in decades. At the moment, this is only a war of words between two mad men. Let us hope that it remains just that – a war of words.
If this escalates any more than that, a war of the worlds, history bears witness of another mad man, Adolf Hitler, who could have destroyed the world in his quest for military supremacy. After the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second world war, we are all too aware of the power of atomic weapons to totally destroy the world. Another world war could destroy the earth as we know it.
Let the powers that be stem these kind of actions by mad men in the bud or else there would be no world for the posterity, our children’s children, to live in.
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford
