However North Korea has threatened a number of countries with nuclear attack - including Japan, South Korea, and Australia in addition to the US:
North Korea threatens Japan
JAPAN should remember that it is "within striking distance" of North Korean weapons amid heightened calls in Tokyo to contain North Korea, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has warned.
The Stalinist state's official mouthpiece accused Japan of being emboldened by the US-led invasion of Iraq in its ambition to remilitarise.
"Japan should behave with discretion, clearly mindful that it is also within the striking range of the DPRK (North Korea)," KCNA said in a dispatch monitored here.
"Japan is turning to the right and is getting militarised at such a rapid tempo that the call for destroying the DPRK, a legitimate sovereign state, is heard in the Diet (Japanese parliament). This is a clear indication of the gravity of the situation.
"The Japanese reactionaries seem to have lost their reason under the impact of the Iraqi war launched by their master," KCNA said in a reference to the United States which Japan has backed over going to war.
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North Korea threatens nuclear strike against US
February 7 2003
By Shane Green
Tokyo
North Korea is reactivating nuclear facilities and has declared its right to make a pre-emptive strike against the United States, as it emerged that Australian forces could be involved in any war on the Korean peninsula.
In a move described by the US as dangerous, Pyongyang announced it would restart its reactor at Yongbyon, which is capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.
The move appears to be a carefully timed act of brinkmanship which has plunged the Korean peninsula into its worst nuclear crisis in nearly a decade.
The bankrupt Stalinist regime announced the move just hours before US Secretary of State Colin Powell briefed the United Nations Security Council on Iraq.
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North Korea threatens South with 'unspeakable disaster'
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By SOO-JEONG LEE, Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (May 20, 9:53 a.m. ADT) - North Korea condemned a recent summit between President Bush and South Korea's president, and warned Tuesday of an "unspeakable disaster" for the South if it confronts the communist state over its nuclear weapons programs.
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North Korea threatens Australia
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 10:31 AM
Australian could face a nuclear attack from North Korea if it got involved in an international force to stop ships carrying weapons of mass destruction, an unofficial spokesman for the North Korean government has warned.
Australia has agreed to take part in maritime exercises which may lead to the establishment of an international operation to stop the weapons trade by counties such as North Korea.
Kim Myong-Chol from the Centre for Korean-American Peace said if North Korean ships were stopped at sea, North Korea could turn its nuclear arsenal on Australia.
Mr Myong-Chol said North Korea had reprocessed 8,000 nuclear fuel rods at the Yongbyon nuclear facility, and had nuclear missiles pointed at the United States.
He said North Korea also had missiles capable of hitting Australia.
theage.com.au
Mb>Pyongyang: We'll put a torch to New York
By Shane Green, Herald Correspondent in Tokyo
March 8 2003
North Korea would launch a ballistic missile attack on the United States if Washington made a pre-emptive strike against the communist state's nuclear facility, the man described as Pyongyang's "unofficial spokesman" claimed yesterday.
Kim Myong-chol, who has links to the Stalinist regime, told reporters in Tokyo that a US strike on the nuclear facility at Yongbyon "means nuclear war".
"If American forces carry out a pre-emptive strike on the Yongbyon facility, North Korea will immediately target, carry the war to the US mainland," he said, adding that New York, Washington and Chicago would be "aflame".
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