North Korea has this year repeatedly provoked worldwide outrage with a series of nuclear tests and missile launches, prompting condemnation and threats from despot Kim Jong-un’s Western rivals.
And it has now been revealed the campaign of terror is partly thanks to China, who have been supplying North Korea with a key ingredient.
Beijing is believed to send Kim’s blood-thirsty Pyongyang administration rocket fuel dubbed “Devil’s Venom” – with fears growing the hermit state have already figured out how to manufacture the material itself.
The fuel, unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine (UDMH), is extremely tricky to create and is suspected to be supplies to the rogue state by China.
While America and other world powers abandoned UDMH years ago, after the volatile material caused several huge and deadly explosions, desperate Kim continues to put his workers at risk in order to achieve his evil goal.
It is believed to have been used as recently as last Friday when Kim sent a missile soaring over Japan, sparking panic in the towns below.
The New York times reports North Korea relies heavily on the dangerous fuel, quoting Senator Edward J Markey.
The Democrat said: “If North Korea does not have UDMH, it cannot threaten the United States, it’s as simple as that.
“These are the issues that the US intelligence community has to answer: from which countries they receive the fuel — it’s probably China — and whether North Korea has a stockpile and how big it is.”
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Stopping North Korea receiving the fuel is no mean feat, a former Washington official warned.
He said: “All sorts of things banned for export to North Korea find their way in.”
Today America sent a huge threat to North Korea, when US president Donald Trump told Pyongyang he would not hesitate to “totally destroy” the country if provoked.
He said during his maiden UN General Assembly speech if America “is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea”.
He mockingly referred to North Korean despot Kim Jong-un as a “rocket man on a suicide mission for himself and his regime”.