North Korea launched a very personal attack on South Korea’s president

“The truth is that the North Koreans rejected that response”.

North Korea has said it is developing nuclear weapons for self-defense and that it has the sovereign right to launch satellites as part of a peaceful space program.

North Korea is once again threatening to attack US personnel and the USA homeland if joint military exercises with South Korea seem to be a danger to their dear leader.

As well as traditionally declaring the joint drills a preparation for a real invasion, Pyongyang has engaged in a particularly bitter war of words with Seoul, calling the South Korean President Park Geun-hye a “tailless, old, insane bitch” who “lives in the groin of her American master”.

North Korea on Tuesday threatened to attack the USA mainland and South Korea if Seoul shows any sign of carrying out a “beheading operation” targeting Kim Jong Un. In contrast, while the Six-Party Talks were underway, North Korea was even seen to refrain from increasing its nuclear and missile capacity.

The North habitually claims that the annual Key Resolve/Foal Eagle exercise is a rehearsal for invasion while Seoul and Washington say it is purely defensive. While the global community has imposed tougher sanctions on North Korea after each nuclear test, this has only intensified the North Korean regime’s sense of crisis and led to more nuclear tests.

South Korea and the United States have postponed the launch of formal talks on deploying a high-tech US missile defense system, THAAD, on the peninsula amid speculation that the decision may be linked with efforts to adopt a U.N. resolution against Pyongyang as early as possible.

The United States and South Korea have responded with a series of military muscle-flexing activities.

USA soldiers walk past South Korean anti-war activists holding a rally against talks on deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence System outside the Defense Ministry in Seoul on February 23, 2016.

Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Hong-kyun called in Ambassador Qiu to ask about his remarks and Qiu gave a honest explanation of the related situation, the ministry said in a statement.

China has warned that a United States missile system planned to be set up on South Korea’s soil would harm its security.

Beijing is apparently concerned that Thaad could undermine its own missile capability, and that its powerful radar could be used to monitor China’s military sites. Some sources said the postponement was made at the request of the USA side, though no clear reason was given.