North Korea is building up a formidable nuclear arsenal in order to avoid the fate of Libya and Iraq, an American writer and retired professor says.
James Petras, who has written dozens of books on international issues, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on North Korea’s claims that it tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.
North Korea on September 3 announced it had conducted a “successful” hydrogen bomb test, hours after two tremors were detected in the country.
The United States had previously declined to characterize the test. But on Thursday, the US general in charge of America’s nuclear forces confirmed that it was a hydrogen bomb.
“I’m not a nuclear scientist, so I can’t tell you this is how it worked, this is what the bomb was. … But I can tell you the size that we observed and saw tends to me to indicate that it was a hydrogen bomb and I have to figure out what the right response…