Top US general: North Korea 'would use WMD' to save regime

February 24, 2016 18:17

The top US military commander in South Korea said Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would use a weapon of mass destruction if he thought the fate of his rule was at stake.

If he "thought his regime were challenged he states that he would use WMD," Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander of US Forces Korea, told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.

Scaparrotti said that tensions on the Korean Peninsula were at their highest level in more than 20 years.

Adm. Harry Harris, commander of US Pacific Command, said at the same hearing that if North Korea continues to develop ballistic missiles, a US military option is possible.

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