North Korea is testing ICBMs again. Nuclear weapons may be next
A heated exchange between the two Koreas hints at rising tensions
AT A CEREMONY on April 1st Suh Wook, South Korea’s defence minister, boasted that South Korea could “accurately and swiftly strike any targets in North Korea”. Kim Yo Jong, a high-ranking North Korean official and the sister of Kim Jong Un, the country’s dictator, quickly fired back, accusing the “scum-like guy” of “senseless bluster” for threatening a “pre-emptive strike”. She later added that the South Korean army would “face a miserable fate little short of total destruction and ruin” if it were to attack.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Bursting into Hwasong”
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