Despot Kim Jong-un fuels tension over Trump’s missile strike on Syria calling it an ‘unforgivable act of aggression’ that justifies North Korea’s nukes
NORTH Korean despot Kim Jong-un has fuelled tension over US missile strikes on Syria branding the action an "unforgivable act of aggression" that defends its nukes.
Trump ordered the revenge hit against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after dozens died in a suspected chemical gas attack in Idlib province.
Shocking pictures from the location of the attack included a sobbing father clinging on to the bodies of his dead children.
Trump retaliated to the attack, which he described as "an affront to humanity" by launching strikes on a Syrian airbase with the US ambassador to the United Nations saying the country is "prepared to do more".
Following US action KCNA news agency quoted an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry as saying: "The US missile attack against Syria is a clear and intolerable act of aggression against a sovereign state and we strongly condemn it.
"The reality of today shows that we must stand against power with power and it proves a million times over that our decision to strengthen our nuclear deterrence has been the right choice."
Tyrant leader Kim Jong-un has reached out to Assad and considers Syria an ally.
The strikes had been perceived as a clear warning to Pyongyang that the US would pursue military action over the secretive state's nuclear weapons programme.
The communist state's spokesman said: "The Syria attack thoroughly reminds us the fact that it is absolutely dangerous to have any illusions about imperialism and only military power of our own will protect us from imperialistic aggression.
"We will keep bolstering our self-defensive military might in various ways in order to cope with the ever-intensifying US acts of aggression."
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North Korea has carried out five nuclear tests - two of them last year - and expert satellite imagery analysis suggests it could well be preparing for a sixth.
The country's comments came after Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping -Pyongyang's only diplomatic ally - in a bid to curb the state's burgeoning nuclear programme.
He reportedly threatened to "act alone" against nuke mad North Korea as the pair came face-to-face for the first time in Florida.
Trump's top military advisers have reportedly told him assassinating North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may be the only way to put an end to the country’s constant nuclear threats.
Trump's strikes also angered Russia with Moscow saying it is "one step from war" over Syria - but Donald Trump’s administration has hit back, saying they would be prepared to carry out another airstrike in the wake of a 59-missile blitz on the Shayrat airfield.
Russia sent out the nation’s Black Sea Fleet’s frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich, to the Syrian port city of Tartus in the Mediterranean in response, according to Russian news agency Tass.
Russian PM Dmitri Medvedev said the strikes were illegal and had been “one step away from military clashes with Russia”.
Relations with Washington had been “completely ruined”, he added, saying: “This military action is a clear indication of the US president’s extreme dependency on the views of the Washington establishment, the one that the new president strongly criticised in his inauguration speech.”
Observers in Syria have said the Al-Sharyat Air Base was “almost completely destroyed” by the 1000lb warheads dropped by US forces.
The strike, on a Syrian airbase suspected of storing chemical weapons, is said to have destroyed 20 planes, a dozen aircraft hangars and a fuel depot as the runway was heavily bombarded.
Four children are said to be among nine civilians killed in the US attack, according to a Syrian state news agency.
The missiles were fired from US destroyers some 150 miles away in the Mediterranean Sea.
Trump launched the “precision-guided” Tomahawk cruise missiles against Shayrat Airfield in Syria in the early hours of Friday morning in response to Bashar al-Assad’s suspected chemical gas attack which killed 80 civilians earlier this week.
The US leader has since tweeted, writing: “Congratulations to our great military men and women for representing the United States, and the world, so well in the Syria attack.”
Since the US retaliation, the Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun, targeted in the chemical attack on Tuesday, was again hit by airstrikes, activists have claimed.
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