US will never eliminate its nuclear arsenal: Analyst
Despite pushing North Korea towards a full denuclearization, the United States is not likely to give up its own huge arsenal of nuclear bombs, says an American analyst.
Bruce Gagnon, a political commentator with the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, made the remarks following US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s threats of more sanctions against North Korea.
Speaking a day ahead of Trump’s highly-anticipated meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, Pompeo said Monday that Washington was ready to introduce more economic sanctions against Pyongyang unless it pledged a complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization.
“The US is spending $1 trillion to upgrade its nuclear weapons and it’s building a new generation of nuclear submarines,” he told Press TV on Monday. “Maybe the world must slap some sanctions on Washington.”
The Pentagon says it needs $350 billion to upgrade the whole triad of its nuclear submarines, aircraft and land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBS) along with America’s some 7,000 nuclear warheads.
Washington is currently keeping some 450 long-range nuclear missiles in underground silos across the US, in addition to an undisclosed number deployed to its military bases in Europe.
Last year the Pentagon awarded contracts to Boeing and Lockheed Martin to design and develop a new ICBM as well as a new nuclear-capable cruise missile.
Meanwhile, the country remains critical of North Korea for developing new missiles and nuclear warheads.
As a response, thousands of US troops and billions of dollars of equipment have been sent to South Korea and Japan to hold an eye on the North.
“The US doesn’t want peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. If that happens the Pentagon must close its bases in South Korea, Okinawa and Japan,” he added.
“North Korea is no threat to anyone; who have they invaded in the last 65 years? No one!” Gagnon said. “How many nations has the US invaded since the Korean War armistice in 1953?”
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