After weeks of escalating threats, the North Korean regime released a series of photos Friday morning through its official news organ, Korean Central News Agency, showing the secretive nation’s leader, Kim Jong Un, huddling with military officers and going over what appears to be plans for a rocket attack against the United States. In spite of these threats, however, mayors and other officials in the cities supposedly under threat seem to be taking the saber-rattling in stride.Reuters, which distributed the photos from KCNA described them as showing Kim Jong Un presiding over “an urgent operation meeting on the Korean People’s Army Strategic Rocket Force’s performance of duty for firepower strike at the Supreme Command in Pyongyang.” The description of the pictures also noted a poster clearly visible in the background labeled, “Strategic force’s plan to hit the mainland of the U.S.” NK News also examined the picture and concluded it seemed to show Washington D.C., Hawaii, San Diego, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas as the primary targets of the planned strike.
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