North Korea has escalated its fiery rhetoric over its threatened use of nuclear weapons, days after a U.S. soldier was taken into custody for crossing the border from South Korea.
The country's defense minister, Kang Sun Nam, has said it would approve the use of nuclear weapons"in case [a] nuclear attack is launched against it or it is judged that the use of nuclear weapons against it is imminent," the state-run KCNA news agency reported Thursday.
The isolated Communist nation has long threatened to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles in self-defense at what it calls active plans by the West to launch an attack on it. Pyongyang said the meeting was a clear provocation and a precursor to a Western attack, plans for which have entered"the most critical stage," making war on the Korean peninsula"a dangerous reality."
Jenkins was avoiding being sent to fight in Vietnam, whereas there is no sign of similar objections from King, who had been in legal trouble in South Korea.that he spent 48 days in a prison in Cheonan, a city about 50 miles south of the South Korean capital, Seoul, after he failed to pay a $4,000 fine on charges that included damaging public property.
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