By Jon Sharman From Independent UK

Reclusive state’s self-styled special delegate says ‘Korea is perfectly prepared with nuclear and thermonuclear weapons’

North Korea could destroy the entire world with just “three or four” thermonuclear bombs, according to a man who styles himself as an international representative of the regime.

“No one will touch North Korea—if they touch it the people will defend it with guns and missiles,” Alejandro Cao de Benos, a Spaniard who says he is a “special delegate” of the reclusive dictatorship, has claimed.

“Korea is perfectly prepared with nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. We have the H-bomb,” he said in an interview with the Argentinian website Infobae.

The IT consultant has made a name for himself defending the North’s dictatorial regime and organising tourist visits in the country.

He told The Independent in 2012: “There’s no one person that decides everything and can do whatever he wants.”

Mr Cao de Benos has also claimed North Korea’s prison camps, where Human Rights Watch said people “perform forced labour in dangerous and sometimes life-threatening conditions”, are in fact “re-education” camps.

“We believe not in punishment but in rehabilitation. It’s a kind of psychological therapy,” he said.

In his latest comments, Mr Cao de Benos said that while the US “has many more missiles than Korea”, it was “not a question of quantity but of the potency of the detonation. One thermonuclear bomb is 100 times more powerful than a nuclear one.

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North Korean military hardware on display earlier this month on the Day of the Sun REUTERS

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