US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday warned North Korea that its expected nuclear tests would only increase the risk of conflict and would do nothing to help the country’s poverty stricken people.
Kerry made the remarks when he dropped in on a group of young students taking a foreign policy lessons at the State Department. Kerry said; “you look at the problems we’re having with North Korea right now, questions of the immanency perhaps of another test, more missiles being fired, perhaps a nuclear test. To what end?. I mean, all that will happen is greater potential of conflict.
North Korea has vowed to carry out a third nuclear test soon, and concerns have been raised over the type of fissile material used in the device. Tests by Pyongyang in 2006 and 2009 involved plutonium, so a uranium detonation would prove that regime of new leader Kim Jong-Un have developed an additional way to make bombs.
Kerry said “the people of North Korea are starving, “they desperately need to become more open and connected to the world instead of harboring some of the worst gulags in the world where people are tortured, and forced to labor.
