North Korea And south Korea conflict
N. Korea warns 'imbecile' Park of
confrontation
North Korea's topmilitary body launched a blistering personal attack Friday on South Korean
President Park Geun-Hye and vowed to push ahead with the country's nuclear
weapons programme. The harsh tone of the attack, attributed to a spokesman from
the National Defence Commission (NDC), echoed the bellicose rhetoric employed
by Pyongyang when military tensions soared following its nuclear test in
February. Referencing Park by name, rather than using the more neutral
"chief executive" moniker, the spokesman told the president that she
was steering the Korean peninsula back into a period of dangerous "confrontation".
A day later,
visiting US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his South Korean counterpart Kim
Kwan-Jin signed a new strategic plan to counter the growing threat of a North
Korean nuclear or chemical weapons attack. South Korea is protected by the USnuclear umbrella and there are currently nearly 30,000 US troops stationed in
the country. The NDC spokesman said North Korea would "invariably
advance" its development of nuclear weapons, adding they were a vital
deterrent to a US nuclear strike. Analysis of recent satellite images suggests
the North has made good on promises to restart a mothballed plutonium reactor
and may have doubled its uranium enrichment capacity.
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