North Korea
blows up US aircraft carrier, bombers, jets in new propaganda video
North Korean
missiles demolish a U.S. aircraft carrier and several jets in the latest
stark
imagery to come out of Pyongyang, this time as part of a Sunday propaganda
video that also mocked President Trump as a "mad man."
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The
90-second video released on the DPRK Today news site one day after U.S. jets
flew over waters east of North Korea, began with images mocking Trump before
flashing to a submarine-launched missile striking the USS Carl Vinson, Yonhap
News Agency reported. The aircraft carrier is seen exploding and disintegrating
into pieces.
Meanwhile,
words flash across the screen warning America against considering military
action: "Should F-35, B-1B or the Carl Vinson lead the U.S attack, they
will head to the grave in that order."
Another clip
showed a medium-range ballistic missile shooting down a B-1B bomber and an F-35
fighter jet, engulfing both in computer-generated fire.
Those same
B-1B bombers stationed in Guam and F-15C Eagle fighter escorts flying out of
Okinawa, Japan entered international airspace over waters east of North Korea
on Saturday. U.S. Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said the mission
was to send North Korea a “clear message” Trump has “many military options to
defeat any threat.”
Trump and
North Korea's war of threats escalated last week when Trump called Kim Jong Un
a “rocket man [who] is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”
The president first debuted the nickname in a tweet days earlier, but made a
firm stance against Kim and the hermit kingdom during his address to the United
Nations General Assembly. He's since changed the nickname to "little
rocket man."
In this
image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, assigned to
the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base,
S.D., prepares to take off from Andersen AFB, Guam, on Saturday, Sept. 23,
2017. The Pentagon says B-1B bombers from Guam and F-15 fighter escorts from
Okinawa, Japan, have flown a mission in international airspace over the waters
east of North Korea. The U.S. says it's the farthest north of the Demilitarized
Zone that divides the Korean Peninsula that any American fighter or bomber has
flown this century.(Staff Sgt. Joshua Smoot/U.S. Air force via AP)
The Pentagon
says B-1B bombers from Guam and F-15 fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, have
flown a mission in international airspace over the waters east of North
Korea. (U.S. Air force via AP)
“North
Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens
the entire world with unthinkable loss of human life,” Trump said, vowing to
“totally destroy” the dictatorship.
Kim fired
back by calling the president a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” who had “denied
the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the
world.”
Both leaders
have dubbed each other a “mad man." North Korea’s foreign minister Ri
Yong-ho said Trump’s rhetoric makes a missile attack on “the entire U.S.
mainland inevitable all the more.”
"None
other than Trump himself is on a suicide mission," Ri told the General
Assembly on Saturday. "In case innocent lives of the U.S. are lost because
of this suicide attack, Trump will be held totally responsible."
The
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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