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South Korean officials have confirmed they are well on the way to developing a graphite bomb capable of shutting down the North’s power grid and wreaking chaos across the country. The bomb would shut down Kim’s hopes of waging war by coating electrical facilities in carbon graphite filaments as part of a precision strike on the hermit kingdom A South Korean military spokesman said: "All technologies for the development of a graphite bomb led by the Agency for Defence Development have been secured. “It is in the stage where we can build the bombs anytime.”

GETTY The bomb would shut down Kim’s hopes of waging war

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The so-called “soft bomb” would only target electrical facilities, not causing any direct harm to the North’s estimated 25.3million citizens. It comes as North Korea warned it “would not flinch” from “the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces” unless the US backed down from its “hostile” and threatening policy towards Pyongyang. The hermit kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations said the US and Donald Trump should “take the lead” in rolling back “nuclear doctrines of aggressive nature such as ‘preemptive strike’”. A report from state-sponsored news agency KCNA claimed the US was solely responsible for the war of words with North Korea and suggested America should be first to dismantle its own nuclear arsenal.

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GETTY South Korea has long prepared to defend itself against the North's military power

It also warned North Korea would not “flinch an inch” from continuing to bolster its own nuclear weapons development program should the US continue with what Pyongyang perceives to be a “hostile” policy. The report read: “To all intents and purposes, the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula was spawned and developed into the present phase today because of the US and, accordingly, the blame for it is entirely on the US. “The DPRK will neither put the nukes and ballistic rockets on negotiating table in any case nor flinch even an inch from the road to bolstering up the nuclear forces chosen by itself unless the US hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK are fundamentally eliminated.

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