North Korea could kill 200,000 Americans by hiding an atomic bomb on board a ‘false flag’ ship and docking it ANY any US coast city, ex CIA experts claim
NORTH Korea could be plotting to load a nuke onto a fake freighter and ship it to the United States — where it would kill HUNDREDS of thousands.
Tubby tyrant Kim Jong-un is committed to arming his hermit state with deadly nuclear weapons.
But a series of shaky missile tests — which have riled neighbouring states and raised tensions to breaking point with the US — mean it is still a way off creating an effective superbomb.
But a former US intelligence chief has warned that Kim is capable of a much more devious plan for destruction.
He is able to hire terrorists for a "nuclear 9/11 style suicide mission", according to James Woolsey, the ex-director of the CIA.
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That was backed up by former CIA official Peter Vincent Pry, who is desperate to make clear the threat posed by the erratic North Korean leadership.
In a stark joint message reported by the , they wrote that North Korea "could deliver an atomic bomb hidden on a freighter sailing under a false flag into a U.S. port".
"They could also hire their terrorist allies to fly a nuclear 9/11 suicide mission across the unprotected border with Mexico", they added.
"In this scenario, populous port cities like New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, or big cities nearest the Mexican border, like San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, and Santa Fe, would be most at risk".
The only way to effectively counter this is to get in first with a preemptive strike on Pyongyang, possibly even with a nuclear attack, they said.
It comes as top US Senator John McCain warned that North Korea could be on the brink of all-out war with the United States.
He described Kim Jong-un as a "crazy fat kid" who needed to be reined in by allies in China.
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