Kim Jong Un's threat follows South Korea's deployment of warplanes close to the Military Demarcation Line.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened 'absolutely overwhelming actions' after South Korea reacted to Pyongyang's failed spy satellite launch with a show of force near the border.'The ROK military gangsters were reckless enough to respond to the exercise of our legitimate sovereign rights with their military demonstration with frenzy,' Kim said Tuesday, using the official name for South Korea, the state-owned Korean Central News Agency reported.
Indo-Pacific Command released a statement calling the launch a 'brazen violation of multiple unanimous U.N. Security Council resolutions' sanctioning dual-use technologies that could aid North Korea's ballistic missile program. The statement stressed that Washington's commitment to South Korea and Japan's defense 'remains ironclad.'Monday's launch coincided with a summit in Seoul between Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, China's No.
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