North Korea said South Korea would be a decisive target of collective retaliation if it serves as a hub of the United States collective defense system, in an article by Kang Chol Su, a department director at the Institute of Enemy State Studies, according to TASS, reproducing the North Korean state agency KCNA.

The article cites remarks by the commander of the two countries’ forces about Seoul as a collective defense hub, also according to the TASS reproduction.