South Korea’s military warned Wednesday that it would respond to any attack from North Korea with “strong and stern measures” against Pyongyang’s top leadership, a particularly vivid threat that comes after the North vowed to nullify the armistice agreement ending the Korean War.
The tit-for-tat threats could prove to be mere bluster, analysts said. But the rhetoric sets up an especially tense period on the Korean Peninsula, with the U.S. and South Korean militaries planning joint training drills that the North considers a “dangerous nuclear war” maneuver, and with the U.N. Security Council deliberating new sanctions to limit Pyongyang’s weapons program.
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South Korea typically shrugs off rhetoric from North Korea, but on Wednesday its Joint Chiefs of Staff released a statement saying the South would respond to provocations by striking “not only at the origin of provocation [and at] supporters of the provocation but also the top operatives.”
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