North Korea’s Consistently Apocalyptic Propagandists

On May 2nd, as a U.S. carrier-strike group cruised the waters off the Korean peninsula, anticipating that North Korea might soon conduct a sixth nuclear test, Pyongyang’s propagandists were ready with an apocalyptic prediction. “Our preemptive nuclear attacks will bring the provocateurs nothing but tragic consequences,” an English-language commentary in Rodong Sinmun, the official paper of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, warned. “South Korea will be submerged in a sea of fire, Japan will be reduced to ashes, and the U.S. will collapse.”

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