North Korea Threat: US, South Korea Come Up With New Defensive Strategy For Dealing With Nuclear Threat

The United States and South Korea have struck a pact in an effort to keep North Korea's nuclear threats from becoming a reality. North Korea's Dictator Kim Jong-un has made threats against the United States, South Korea and their allies saying he would not rule out a nuclear strike against those nations. The U.S. has been working closely with South Korea in an attempt to monitor the threats coming out of North Korea. Previous reports suggest that many political analysts from all over the world believe the threats coming out of North Korea are just rhetoric.

"North Korea doesn't have the capability to carry out this latest threat to attack the U.S. bases in Hawaii, the U.S. mainland or Guam using long-range missiles," said James Hardy in March of this year. Hardy is the Asia-Pacific editor of the HIS Jane's Defense Weekly. North Korea's leader is considered young and inexperienced and just looking to make his mark. There are some however, who feel that the young dictator is looking to get his feet wet with war and may follow through with his threats against South Korea and the Unites States.

"I see this as their way of testing the water," said an expert on North Korea, Narushige Michishita to the Associated Press. "North Korea will probably never be able to defeat the United States in a war. But they are getting stronger." The deal the United States made with South Korea looks to halt North Korea's possible use of nuclear weapons as well as transfer control of the combined U.S and South Korean military forces to South Korea. The transfer of control is currently scheduled for December of 2015.

"Of particular concern are North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, its proliferation activities and its chemical weapons," said Chuck Hagel the United States Defense Secretary at a news conference with South Korean representative Kim Kwan-jin. Hagel continued by saying "Given these concerns, as minister Kim noted, today we signed a bilateral strategy for tailored deterrence against the threat of North Korea nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction." No details as to what the pact consists of or how the U.S and South Korea plan to keep North Korea from using nuclear weapons was given.

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