Images show high level of activity at North Korea nuclear site – monitor

Currently, North Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations in NY acts as one of the few communication channels between Pyongyang and Washington, which the country threatened to close down.

The KCNA also said that North Korea will handle Americans detained in the communist country with martial law.

North Korean leader Kim Jong un has threatened the U.S. after it agreed an advanced missile system to combat his nuclear capabilities. Washington and Pyongyang have no diplomatic ties.

On Wednesday, the US for the first time took action against Kim and other key officials over human rights abuses. Plans to deploy the missile system have been criticized by North Korea, China and Russian Federation.

US and South Korean officials say THAAD only targets North Korea, but China and Russian Federation suspect it could also help USA radars detect their own missiles.

The United States’ new measures were taken in conjunction with the State Department’s issuance of a report entitled “Serious Human Rights Abuses or Censorship in North Korea”, which was mandated by the U.S. Congress under the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act, passed earlier this year.

In March North Korea sentenced University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor after detaining him in January. According to Reuters, however, North Korea has indicated in the past that wartime laws would mean that detainees will not be released on humanitarian grounds. “It is the unwavering will of our army to deal a ruthless retaliatory strike and turn [the South] into a sea of fire and a pile of ashes the moment we have an order to carry it out”.

“North Korea notified the US that it should take responsibility for disastrous events which could take place”, it reported.

China and Russian Federation also have expressed strong opposition to the deployment of THAAD. Otherwise, he said, it would face “decisive and strong punishment from our military”.

South Koreans shout slogans during a rally to denounce deploying the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 11, 2016. “We are entering such a period without the NY channel open to keep things from boiling over”. It will be used by US Forces Korea “to protect alliance military forces”, South Korea and the US said on Friday.