North Korea has threatened to boost its nuclear fighting capability and make the U.S. and South Korea pay an unimaginably harsh price.
Pyongyang also slammed its rivals’ new defense guidelines that it says reveal an intention to invade North Korea.
Just days earlier, President Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk Yeol, authorized the signing of joint nuclear deterrence guidelines.
It was part of efforts to enhance their capabilities to cope with North Korea's growing nuclear arsenal.
But the North's defense ministry says the U.S.-South Korea guidelines have shown their sinister intention to step up preparations for a nuclear war against North Korea.
I'm Lawrence Brooks.