North Korea said Thursday that it had final approval to launch "merciless" military strikes on the United States and had yet to allow South Korean workers to enter a joint industrial complex in the North.
In the latest escalation of the weeks-long crisis, the North Korean army said Thursday morning in Korea, which was Wednesday afternoon in Washington, that it could strike the United States with the possible use of "cutting-edge" nuclear weapons, according to a statement published by the official KCNA news agency.
Although the United States does not believe North Korea has the ability to launch a nuclear-armed missile, the North's closure of the Kaseong industrial park is actually "a very serious development, and a serious heightening of the crisis level on the Korean Peninsula," said Park Young Ho, senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul.
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