Report says Seoul prepared to reduce Pyongyang to ashes

South Korea is ready to “completely destroy” Pyongyang and potential hiding places for senior North Korean officials, according to a Seoul military source Sunday.

The warning falls in line with an explicit mention of a preemptive strike out of the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff a couple of days earlier, when the North conducted its most powerful nuclear test to date.

With Pyongyang repeatedly insisting it will continue to develop nuclear weapons while also issuing specific threats against South Korea and the United States, Seoul is raising its defense posture.

“Every Pyongyang district, particularly where the North Korean leadership is possibly hidden, will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosive shells as soon as the North shows any signs of using a nuclear weapon,” the military source was quoted as saying by local news agency Yonhap.

“In other words, the North's capital city will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map.”

The revelation was apparently based on a plan submitted by the defense ministry to lawmakers last week...
  aa.com.tr
11/9/16
-
Related:

• Moscow voices serious concern over North Korea nuclear test

• North Korea hails 'successful' nuclear test

• DPRK warns of preemptive nuclear strikes on US, S. Korea

• South Korean and US forces put on full alert following North’s nuclear test — (official)