North Korea He said Thursday that the deployment of US weapons such as aircraft carriers, bombers or missile submarines in South Korea could qualify for the use of nuclear weapons, state media KCNA reported, citing a statement by the country’s Defense Minister Kang Sun Nam.
The comments heighten the tension as both sides intensify their displays of military force in a standoff over the isolated country’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
The defense minister’s statement also accused the United States and South Korea of escalating tensions in the region, while criticizing the first meeting of their nuclear advisory group.
“The increasing visibility of the deployment of the nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in the DPRK law”the statement said.
DPRK is short for the official name of the North, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The comment is directed at the US Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine that arrived at the port of the southern city of Busan earlier this week.
“The phase of a military confrontation on the Korean peninsula has emerged as a dangerous reality”, the KCNA report added.
The report comes after a US soldier crossed the border into North Korea on Tuesday, at a time of heightened tension between the two Koreas and the United States. Pyongyang has yet to comment on this incident.
Source: Reuters
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