These are North Korea’s top 15 targets for a nuclear missile strike…and it’s bad news for New Yorkers
TRIGGER-happy Kim Jong-un's top secret nuclear hit list has been revealed and it includes Manhattan, the White House, the Pentagon and LA.
A shock by the European Council on Foreign Relations reveals Guam, Tokyo, Seoul, Hawaii and US military bases in the Pacific are also on the strike list.
"North Korea lacks a clear distinction between the use of nuclear weapons against military targets and their use against civilian targets," the report states.
Which is bad news for all those living in major American cities as the rogue state clearly sees them as fair game for an apocalyptic nuclear attack.
The think tank reviewed material published by the country's state-run news outlets since Kim came to power to draw up the terrifying list.
The new report aims to "predict Pyongyang’s response to different scenarios" so it can better "understand how the regime sees its nuclear weapons, and when it would use them."
And it has concluded Kim's military believes fear of an imminent attack may be the best form of defence.
"Without certainty that its arsenal could survive a first strike by its enemies, Pyongyang’s deterrence relies on the threat of launching the first strike itself," the report states.
North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test in early September and has staged a record 15 missile tests over the course of the year.
In July, it successfully tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on separate occasions for the first time in its history - claiming the US mainland was now within reach.
Kim supervised both launches and reportedly them with lavish banquets.
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Since then, Kim has supervised the firing of three short-range ballistic missiles that flew into the Sea of Japan and of two separate launches of a Hwasong-12 rocket that flew over Japan before landing in the Pacific Ocean.
Earlier this month, the despot branded Donald Trump a "nuclear war maniac" as his state media released a new video showing the White House burning.
The clip posted by a North Korean propaganda outlet showed simulated attacks on the US president's home as the rogue state declared Trump "incurably mentally deranged" ahead of his first visit to Asia.
Trump and the North's leader Kim have traded threats of war and personal insults against each other in recent months - heightening worries about another conflict on the peninsula where the 1950-53 Korean War left millions dead.