N.Korea will be 'wiped off map' if it uses nukes: S.Koreas's defence chief

Seoul’s defense chief on Monday cast doubt on Pyongyang’s threats to strike the United States or South Korea with nuclear weapons, saying that such a move would result in the country being “literally wiped off the face of the Earth.”

Speaking at a security forum in Singapore that was broadcast over the internet, Defense Minister Song Young-moo also voiced skepticism that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would use nuclear weapons for coercive purposes, including to reunify the Korean Peninsula on his terms

SOURCE/More info: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/29/asia-pacific/south-korean-defense-chief-skeptical-north-nuclear-threats-says-tactical-nukes-wont-reintroduced-peninsula/