NORTH KOREA THREATENS ISRAEL WITH 'MERCILESS, THOUSAND-FOLD PUNISHMENT' - Jerusalem Post

Kim Jong-un, North Korea leader. (photo credit:KNS / KCNA / AFP)

NORTH KOREA THREATENS ISRAEL WITH 'MERCILESS, THOUSAND-FOLD PUNISHMENT'

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 APRIL 29, 2017 

 

The statement also claimed that Israel, while working with the US, was the Middle East's only illegal owner of nuclear weapons.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman hurt the "dignity of the supreme leadership" 

of North Korea, state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Saturday. 

The comment was in reaction to Israeli remarks on how the Jewish State is affected by 

North Korean tension with the United States late last week. 

In the interview, Liberman stated that Kim Jong-un was "undermining international stability" 

and "leading a radical and insane society."


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"The reckless remarks of the Israeli defense minister are sordid and wicked behavior and 

grave challenge to the DPRK [North Korea]," the North Korean statement read.

The statement also claimed that Israel, while working with the US, was the Middle East's 

only illegal owner of nuclear weapons.

"This is the cynical ploy to escape the world denunciation and curse as disturber of peace 

in the Middle East, occupier of the Arab territories and culprit of crimes against humanity,"

 the spokesman said.

The access to nuclear power is a "righteous right for self-defense to cope with the US 

provocative moves for aggression," the statement read.

The statement threatened Israel and anyone who "dares hurt the dignity of its supreme 

leadership," with "merciless, thousand-fold punishment."

The statement ended with a warning to Israel to "think twice about the consequences to 

be entailed by its smear campaign against the DPRK [North Korea] to cover up the crimes 

of occupying Arab territories and disturbing peace process in the Middle East."

Last Tuesday a senior IDF officer told reporters at a special briefing that ongoing tension 

between North Korea and the US could impact Israel’s security.

The officer referred to the developing diplomatic rift between the US and the peninsula 

following North Korea’s recent and defiant attempts to extend its nuclear activity, despite 

repeated warnings from the West.

He explained that Israel could bear the brunt of such an escalation in the relations between 

Washington and Pyongyang should it occur, because the US would have to divert security 

resources from the Middle East to Korea.

Joy Bernard contributed to this article.

ISIS Threatens Israel with Global War By JNS - BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

ISIS Threatens Israel with Global War

By JNS May 22, 2016 BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“And Moses spoke unto the people, saying: ‘Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’S vengeance.” Numbers 31:3 (The Israel Bible™)

The Islamic State terror group said in its newsletter this week that its “war against Israel will not be limited by geographical boundaries or by international norms.”

The Al-Naba newsletter, which was obtained by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and cited in a report by the Jerusalem Post, claims that Israel feels threatened by Islamic State for various reasons—which explains why the Jewish state is aiding the fight against Islamic State in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and in the Syrian civil war.

“The collapse of the Sykes-Picot statelets, which were tasked with protecting the Jewish state; the approach of ISIS (Islamic State) mujahideen toward its borders; [Israel’s] fear of the spread of [Islamic State’s] methodology among the oppressed Muslims inside those borders; and the manifest failure of the Crusader states who protect the Jews to win the battle against [Islamic State]—all these are factors that caused the Jewish state to not sit idly by in face of this danger,” the Islamic State newsletter said.

Islamic State also said its war against Israel will not look like Israel’s conflicts with other Islamic movements or groups like Hamas, who “falsely attribute themselves to Islam, since those battles were fought within the framework of the international order.”

MEMRI explained that Islamic State’s ideology believes in fighting Israel only after the jihadist group conquers the Arab states in Israel’s neighborhood.