North Korea threatens over US missile system in South Korea

But given that the Musudan IRBM has an estimated range of more than 3000 km, and is thus more of a threat to the USA naval base in Guam than to South Korea, it is likely that this sudden announcement of THAAD deployment was led by the US.

Hundreds of thousands of people are believed to be in North Korea’s concentration camp system in horrifying conditions.

Monday’s statement is filled with the kind of belligerent, over-the-top rhetoric that meets anything Pyongyang sees as an external threat.

A South Korean man holds a sign during a rally to denounce deploying the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, July 11, 2016.

The North frequently threatens to attack the South and USA interests in Asia and the Pacific.

The North called the sanctions tantamount to a war declaration.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.

North Korea’s military put out a statement that read, in part, Reuters reported: “There will be physical response measure from us as soon as the location and time that the invasionary tool for USA world supremacy, [missile defense] THAAD, will be brought into South Korea are confirmed”.

North Korea is resorting to wartime laws to deal with the United States in response to Washington’s newly-introduced sanctions against Kim and other North Korean officials.

Tensions are high high since Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear test in January, followed by a series of missile launches that analysts said showed the North was making progress toward being able to strike the United States mainland.

On Wednesday, the USA placed Mr Kim on its sanctions blacklist for the first time, calling him directly responsible for a long list of serious human rights abuses.

Seoul’s defense ministry spokesman Moon Sang-kyun warned the North on Monday.

South Korean media have suggested that North Korea might use the wartime law to hand out harsher punishments on Americans detained in the North.

North Korea has warned it will take “physical actions” after South Korea and the United States agreed to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) missile defence system to cope with the nuclear threat from Pyongyang.

The United States and North Korea don’t actually have formal diplomatic ties, but the North Korean mission to the United Nations (located in New York) has been the unofficial communication avenue between the two nations.

The U.S. sanctions also extend to five North Korean state entities, including the Ministry of People’s Security, which the Obama administration says oversees labor camps and other detention facilities, where torture, execution, rape, starvation and forced labor takes place.