Pyongyang declared this Sunday that his country will “exponentially” increase the number of nuclear warheads, after calling the South a “clear enemy”.
Any attempt by North Korea to use nuclear weapons would lead to the “end of the regime,” the South Korean Defense Ministry warned Sunday, after North leader Kim Jong-un called for an “exponential” increase in the North’s nuclear arsenal. country.
“We seriously warn that if North Korea made an attempt to use nuclear weapons, it would lead to the end of the Kim Jong-un regime,” the ministry said in a text message sent to local media.
Seoul urged the North Korean authorities to return to the path of denuclearization, arguing that such a course correction would be the “only way” to improve the lives of its population. He also stressed that he would deter and respond to nuclear and missile threats from the North by “drastically” strengthening its three axis defense systeman operational plan to incapacitate the North Korean leadership in a serious conflict.
“Our Army will build a posture of military readiness to severely retaliate against any symmetrical or asymmetrical provocation by North Korea based on the determination not to hesitate even to go to war,” the ministry said.
Kim Jong-un declared this Sunday that his country will “exponentially” increase the number of nuclear warheads. The president stressed that South Korea is a “clear enemy” and that is why his country needs to produce more tactical nuclear weapons.
The North Korean leader accused Washington and Seoul of carrying out an “unprecedented plot” to “isolate and strangle” Pyongyang. “The situation today demands that our country redouble its efforts to overwhelmingly strengthen our military power in order to safeguard our sovereignty, security, and basic national interest in dealing with dangerous US military movements and other hostile forces attacking us. “Kim stressed.
Source: RT
