Pyongyang has responded angrily to South Korea’s statement that it might now target the whole of North Korea with long-range missiles, calling it part of a US plan to apply a “strategic siege network to Asia”.
On Sunday, Seoul announced it had gained approval from the US to increase the range of its missiles facing North Korea from 300km to 800km, and to increase the explosive payloads carried by its unmanned aircraft.
The deal resulted from a conspiracy to “push the situation on the Korean peninsula to the extreme pitch of tension and ignite a war against [North Korea]”, said the National Defence Commission, North Korea’s top military body, yesterday.
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