The lives of thousands of American citizens would die in the event of a conflict with North Korea”

The US is well aware that a possible attack in North Korea will cause victims of up to 250,000 Americans living in the South, Nikolai Pattrusev, secretary of Russia's Security Council, told Russian media Tuesday.

If large-scale hostilities explode on the Korean Peninsula, tens of thousands of American citizens will die,” Ptrusev stressed, “reported. RT” Transmission Periscope. He added that such a result is known as “victims unacceptable in the military language of any country”.

The security official reiterated that North Korean military artillery has been positioned just 30 miles [50 km] from Seoul, a living metropolis that houses about 10 million people.

Meanwhile, Washington bears responsibility for contributing to tension in “a vicious circle of” on the Korean peninsula. “Today, the U.S.A. makes aggressive statements [and] provocative against [North Korean] leadership and all North Korean people, where they performed large-scale air and sea exercises along with South Korea”, Pattrusev said.

This vicious circle must only be broken by political and diplomatic means,” added Patushev.

“Washington is very stable in its plans to place elements of the global missile defence system in the region”, Ptrusev said.

“We cannot rule out that increasing tensions around North Korea benefits the strategic goals of the United States”, he added./Periscopi/