North Korea has threatened to use nuclear weapons after stationing a US Navy submarine in South Korea.
The “increasing visibility of the deployment of (…) strategic capabilities”, including the US deployment of the nuclear-capable submarine, could fall under Pyongyang’s “conditions of use of nuclear weapons”, North Korea’s defense minister said today. , Kang Sun Nam.
According to the North Korean state news agency KCNA, Kang described the parking of the submarine as the “most blatant and direct nuclear threat” to his country “in 40 years”. The US military must “be aware that it has entered extremely dangerous waters with its nuclear weapons.”