North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened to use nuclear weapons to destroy South Korea if attacked, state media reported Friday, after South Korea’s president warned that if the North used nuclear weapons it would “face the end of its regime.

Supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, denounced what he perceived as recent talks of aggression against his country and warned that any encroachment into North Korea’s territory would have dire consequences,

North Korea’s state news agency recently released photos of their supreme leader Kim Jong Un visiting a newly constructed uranium enrichment facility. The photos suggest that North Korea has the capacity to build more nuclear weapons than previously estimated by external agencies.