Pyongyang said the ‘entire US mainland is within our firing range’ and threatened ‘severe punishment’ for America if it ‘dares to invade out sacred territory’.

The chilling statement comes as a North Korean official claimed the secretive nation was building a rocket capable of traveling more than 6,000 miles.

The new missile would be capable of reaching ‘all the way to the East coast’ of the US, one of Kim Jong-un’s officials claimed.

The official told CNN Pyongyang was not ruling out diplomacy, but that beforehand, ‘we want to send a clear message that the DPRK has a reliable defensive and offensive capability to counter any aggression from the United States’.

It comes after North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador warned yesterday that the situation on the Korean peninsula ‘has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.’

Kim In Ryong told the U.N. General Assembly’s disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to ‘such an extreme and direct nuclear threat’ from the United States since the 1970s – and said the country has the right to possess nuclear weapons in self-defense.

He pointed to large-scale military exercises every year using ‘nuclear assets’ and said what is more dangerous is what he called a US plan to stage a ‘secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership.’

This year, Kim said, North Korea completed its ‘state nuclear force and thus became the full-fledged nuclear power which possesses the delivery means of various ranges, including the atomic bomb, H-bomb and intercontinental ballistic rockets.’

‘The entire US mainland is within our firing range and if the US dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe,’ he warned.

Kim’s speech follows escalating threats between North Korea and the United States, and increasingly tough UN sanctions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that his country is curtailing economic, scientific and other ties with North Korea in line with UN sanctions, and the European Union announced new sanctions on Pyongyang for developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving the North Korean crisis ‘will continue until the first bomb drops.’

His commitment to diplomacy came despite President Donald Trump’s tweets several weeks ago that his chief envoy was ‘wasting his time’ trying to negotiate with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, whom he derisively referred to as ‘Little Rocket Man.’

North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador called his country’s nuclear and missile arsenal ‘a precious strategic asset that cannot be reversed or bartered for anything.’

‘Unless the hostile policy and the nuclear threat of the US is thoroughly eradicated, we will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table under any circumstances,’ Kim said.

He told the disarmament committee that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – North Korea’s official name – had hoped for a nuclear-free world.

Instead, Kim said, all nuclear states are accelerating the modernisation of their weapons and ‘reviving a nuclear arms race reminiscent of (the) Cold War era.’

He noted that the nuclear weapon states, including the United States, boycotted negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that was approved in July by 122 countries at the United Nations.

‘The DPRK consistently supports the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the efforts for denuclearisation of the entire world,’ he said. But as long as the United States rejects the treaty and ‘constantly threatens and blackmails the DPRK with nuclear weapons … the DPRK is not in position to accede to the treaty.’

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Source: Daily Mail

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The launch of the Khoramshahr missile, which has a range of 2,000 km (1,242 miles), was shown on state TV. It is unclear when the test took place.

At the UN on Tuesday, Mr Trump criticised Iran’s missile programme and the 2015 nuclear deal with the country.

On Friday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran would increase its military power “as a deterrent”.

The Khoramshahr missile was first displayed at a military parade on Friday in Tehran. It is capable of carrying multiple warheads, Iranian media report.

Iran’s Defence Minister, Gen Amir Hatami, outlined the missile’s “unique specifications”.

“The ability to evade the enemy’s air defence line and to be guided from the moment of launch until the target is hit turns Khoramshahr into a tactical missile,” he said.

Iran would “not seek permission from any country for producing various kinds of missile”, he added.

The US announced fresh sanctions on Iran in July over its ballistic missile programme and what it said was Iran’s support for terror organisations.

It also imposed sanctions on Iran after a ballistic missile test in January. It says such launches violate the spirit of the 2015 agreement between Iran and six world powers to limit its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief.

Tehran insists its missile programme does not contravene the agreement. It says the missiles are not meant to carry nuclear warheads.

At the UN General Assembly this week, the US and Iranian leaders traded barbs.

r Trump included Iran among a “small group of rogue regimes”, said its government was bent on “death and destruction” and said the nuclear agreement was an “embarrassment” to the US.

Mr Rouhani responded by referring to a “rogue newcomer to international politics” and deplored the US leader’s “ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric”.

He said his country would “not be the first” to violate the deal, which Mr Trump has threatened to pull out of despite other signatories and international monitors saying Iran has stuck by its terms.

On Wednesday, Mr Trump said he had already made up his mind but would not yet reveal his decision.

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Source: BBC

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The FDA says it “has reliably been informed that the Manufacturing Plant of Exeter Corned Beef in Argentina has been shut down for some time now and that the product is now being manufactured in Brazil”.

The FDA, sounded the  alarm in a press statement signed by its Chief Executive Officer (CKO), Hudu Mogtari.

Despite this development, some persons are still importing Exeter Corned Beef indicating the country manufactured to be Argentina.

“The public is, therefore, being cautioned against the patronage of Exeter Corned Beef purported to be manufactured in Argentina since the FDA cannot guarantee its safety”.

The statement said, “Consumers of Exeter Corned Beef are advised to patronize only the ones from Brazil; which the FDA has approved currently”

The FDA further advises that report should be made to any FDA office nationwide or the police on any shop or persons found distributing or selling Exeter Corned Beef purported to be manufactured in Argentina.

Furthermore, the general public is being assured of FDA’s readiness to ensure public health and safety at all times and therefore appeals to the general public to give any information on persons suspected to be engaged in any practice which has the possibility of endangering public health and safety, through any of the following contacts: 0244337235, 0244337243, 0244337249, 0244563764 or 0244337251.

Source:Herald

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