"Now our armed forces are fully prepared to respond to any crisis, and our country's nuclear deterrent forces are also fully ready to correctly, accurately and quickly mobilize its absolute power to fulfill its mission," Kim said on Wednesday at the celebration of the anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War, as quoted by the Yonhap news agency.
He stressed that any possible attempt of South Korea to make a preventive strike on North Korea to neutralize a part of the latter's military potential would be futile.
In 1953, both South and North Korea reached an Armistice Agreement that ended the three-year war. However, formally, the Korean Peninsula is still at war because it ended without a peace treaty.