Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora again mentioned the possibility that North Korea might conduct a nuclear test if US provocations continue.
Ambassador Matsegora said in an interview with Russia's Sputnik news agency on the 10th (local time), "We are not ruling out that if U.S. provocations continue, the North Korean leadership will have no choice but to conduct nuclear tests to strengthen their national defense capabilities." He said.
He continued, “Of course, this is an undesirable scenario,” and emphasized, “If a nuclear test takes place, the responsibility lies entirely with the United States and its allies.”
Earlier, in an interview with Russia's TASS news agency reported on the 7th, Ambassador Matsegora also mentioned that if the United States continues its provocative moves in the region, North Korea may decide to conduct additional nuclear tests. Then, three days later, the possibility of North Korea's nuclear test was again raised.
Recent trends in North Korea also lend support to Ambassador Matsegora's assertion that a nuclear test is possible. On the 19th of last month, North Korea announced through the Korean Central News Agency that it had tested an underwater nuclear weapons system in protest against the joint maritime exercises between South Korea, the United States, and Japan held from the 15th to the 17th of the same month.
In a statement titled 'We will never condone the madness of reckless military confrontation,' a North Korean Ministry of Defense spokesperson said, "It is an act that seriously threatens the security of our nation." “The important test of ‘5-23’ was conducted in the waters of the East Sea of Joseon,” he said.
Tsunami, known as an underwater nuclear torpedo, is a nuclear unmanned underwater attack vehicle developed by North Korea. North Korea first disclosed the fact that it had developed and tested ‘Tsunami-1’ on March 28 last year, and announced that it had tested ‘Tsunami-2’ on April 8 of the same year.
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