North Korea Targeting Cities in USA and Japan for Nuclear Strike

North Korea’s nuclear targets have been revealed, with the United States topping the list.

The European Commission on Foreign Relations, a think tank researching geopolitics, has released a report which lists the top 16 targets that North Korea has aimed their nuclear missiles at. Topping the list is the “US Mainland” and “Major American Cities” such as Los Angeles and Chicago.

The next three entries are Manhattan, The White House, and The Pentagon, the last two being the seats of American military governance.

American allies South Korea and Japan are also on the list, with Seoul being targeted by “unspecified” ordinance, and major Japanese cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto also under North Korean crosshairs.

While the list does contain highly populated areas, several of the targets are of a military nature, such as US nuclear aircraft carrier groups and military bases stationed in the Pacific, military bases in Okinawa, as well as “targets in the operational theatres of South Korea”.

The report is based on analyzing state media as well as information brought outside the hermit kingdom by North Korean defectors.

“Pyongyang repeatedly threatens both US bases in the Asia-Pacific and cities on the US mainland,” the report says, “while the media repeats the threat that North Korean ‘strategic forces’ are ready at any time to strike the US mainland, their stronghold, their military bases in the operational theatres in the Pacific, including Hawaii and Guam, and those in South Korea.”

“Japanese and South Korean cities are also designated as targets.”

Unlike the US, North Korea doesn’t have any official nuclear doctrine dictating the use of its nuclear weapons. However, the report notes that the North seems to have adopted a doctrine of preemptive strike to discourage any outside intervention in the North’s affairs.

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