▲ President Yoon Suk Yeol (3rd from L) leads a Cabinet meeting at the presidential office in Seoul on Jan. 16, 2024. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

Yoon-N Korea

Yoon vows multiple-times stronger punishment in event of N.K. provocation

SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Tuesday to punish North Korea multiple times as hard in the event it carries out a provocation against South Korea.

Yoon's remark came shortly after North Korea said its leader Kim Jong-un called for revising the country's constitution to define South Korea as the "No. 1 hostile country" and to codify the commitment to "completely occupying" the South Korean territory in the event of war.

"Should North Korea provoke us, we will punish them multiple times as hard," Yoon said during a Cabinet meeting.

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