North Korea threatens to use nuclear weapons if South Korea strikes first

Today (April 5), the leader’s sister North Korea Kim Jong-un, Mrs. Kim Yo-jong warned, North Korea will use nuclear weapons if it had to confront Korea militarily.

“If no one provokes us, we will never attack them first. We will not fire even a single bullet at South Korea. That means if the South Korean military is not real. take any military action against us, they will not be considered a target of our attack,” said Kim Yo-jong, deputy head of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. April 5, at the same time emphasizing that North Korea is a country with nuclear weapons.

North Korea will use nuclear weapons if it has to confront South Korea militarily. (Photo: AP)

Kim Yo-jong’s statement came after South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook (Su Wuc) said that the country’s military has the ability to strike “precisely and quickly” where the attacks originate. rocket launch Pyongyang, if there is any clear indication of a potential missile launch at South Korea.

Kim Yo-jong said that Minister Su Wuc’s comments “will only aggravate inter-Korean relations and military tension on the Korean peninsula”.

According to Kim Yo-jong, although Pyongyang opposes a war that could return the Korean peninsula to the “catastrophe” of the 1950s (the period of the Korean War), everything can change. depending on Korea’s moves.

South Korea and the United States are strengthening security cooperation after a series of missile launches by North Korea, including an intercontinental ballistic missile test on March 24.

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