North Korea Warns U.S. May Have Given It Green Light for Nuclear Attack – By Nick Mordowanec (Newsweek) / July 20, 2023
A United States nuclear submarine’s appearance in South Korea is grounds for North Korea to consider nuclear repercussions, according to Defense Minister Kang Sun-nam.
Japanese and South Korean militaries said Thursday that North Korea fired two ballistic missiles eastwards early on Wednesday, following the Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Kentucky (SSBN-737) arriving in a port in Busan, South Korea, for the first time in four decades.
“I remind the U.S. military of the fact that the ever-increasing visibility of the deployment of the strategic nuclear submarine and other strategic assets may fall under the conditions of the use of nuclear weapons specified in DPRK law on nuclear force policy,” Sun-nam said in a press statement carried by North Korea’s Central News Agency, as reported by South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency
