North Korea Says It Will Strike With Nuclear Weapons If South Attacks: KCNA

North Korea Says It Will Strike With Nuclear Weapons If South Attacks: KCNA
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, attends wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 2, 2019. Jorge Silva/Pool/Reuters
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SEOUL—North Korea opposes war but would use nuclear weapons if South Korea attacked, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said on Tuesday, in a warning that analysts said is probably aimed at the South’s incoming conservative president.

Kim Yo Jong, a senior official in the North Korean regime, said it was a “very big mistake” for South Korea’s minister of defense to make recent remarks discussing attacks on the North, state news agency KCNA reported.