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US panicked over North Korea hydrogen bomb test: Analyst

Sunday, 10 January 2016 7:17 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 10 January 2016 7:32 AM ]

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The Obama administration has nervously panicked over North Korea's nuclear test and is trying to desperately show its military prowess, Scott Bennett said.

The United State’s flying of a powerful bomber over South Korea is indicative of the fact that Washington has panicked over North Korea’s recent hydrogen bomb test, says a political analyst.

US B-52 Stratofortress flew over South Korea on Sunday after North Korea allegedly carried out its first hydrogen bomb test on Wednesday.

Pyongyang said it successfully conducted the test, hours after seismologists detected an artificial earthquake close to the country's main atomic test site northeast of North Korea.

“The recent United States flyover of the B52-bomber over North Korea or South Korean peninsula is really an indication of the Obama administration becoming nervously panic and trying to desperately show its” military prowess, Scott Bennett, former US Army Psychological Warfare officer, told Press TV on Sunday.

The US is also trying “to convince the North Koreans and the Chinese that the United States is serious about protecting its Korean and Japan allies,” Bennett added.

“However, I think the global stage will look at it a little bit differently. The global stage is looking at this is simply another blustering bravado provocative action by the US trying to fluff up its feathers and intimidate the North Korea-Russia-China alliance,” he stated.

Following the test, Secretary of State John Kerry said that the US military will closely watch the North. He also called on China to put an end to "business as usual" with North Korea.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also joined the chorus of international condemnation of North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test, describing the alleged test as a threat to regional stability.

Bennett said that “China and Russia are basically standing on the side of North Korea, by allowing it to defend itself and they are not rushing to criticize, they are not rushing to condemn, they’re simply observing.”

“The United Nations council making a comment about it is another somewhat of a demonstration of hypocrisy, because the United Nations Security Council, of course, led to the allowance of the destruction of Iraq and the destruction of Libya, so there is no international law or justice coming from the United Nations or NATO,” he noted.

North Korea has repeatedly said joint military maneuvers by South Korea and the US pose direct threats against its security.

Bennett also said that the US is trying to “influence the South Koreans, to put them at ease, to put them into a state of calm, because the US does have a massive military industrial complex budgetary expense line in South Korea.”

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