South Korean President Park Geun-Hye vows to 'break North Korea's will'
Closure of joint-run factory was 'just the beginning' of a 'strong' response
Park said Kim Jong-Un had diverted workers' salaries to bomb programme
Seoul to make NK 'bitterly realise it can't survive' with nuclear development
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North Korea will collapse if it does not abandon its nuclear bomb programme, South Korea's president has warned.
In a speech to the National Assembly, Park Geun-Hye said a fundamentally new approach was needed to derail Kim Jong-Un's pursuit of an atomic weapon.
She warned that South Koreans had, over the years, become 'numb' to the threat from their northern neighbour and said it was now time to take a more courageous stand.
Her speech came a week after Park took the unprecedented step of shutting down operations at the jointly run Kaesong industrial estate, triggering an aggressive response from Pyongyang.
Defending the closure, Park said it was 'just the beginning' and signalled further steps that she argued were needed to derail the North's nuclear programme.
'The government will take stronger and more effective measures to make North Korea bitterly realise that it cannot survive with nuclear development and that it will only speed up regime collapse,' she said.
Park said the North had diverted much of the Seoul payments to North Korean workers at the factory park to the Pyongyang leadership which is in charge of nuclear and missile development.
Citing the North's nuclear test last month and long-range rocket launch on February 7, which was widely viewed as a ballistic missile test, Park said it was clear Pyongyang had no intention of discussing denuclearisation.
'If time passes without any change, the Kim Jong-Un leadership – which is speeding without a brake – could deploy a nuclear-tipped missile and we will suffer,' she said.
'It has become clear that we cannot break North Korea's will to develop nuclear weapons through existing means and goodwill.
'It's time to find a fundamental solution for bringing practical change in North Korea and to show courage in putting that into action.'
A similar line is being pushed by the United States and Japan in an effort to secure a strong UN Security Council resolution that will include harsh new sanctions for North Korea.
But Park's speech failed to address the problem the Security Council is having in drafting a resolution that has the support of all five veto-wielding permanent members.
Despite Beijing's annoyance with North Korea's nuclear ambitions and its young maverick leader Kim Jong-Un, its priority has been to prevent chaos on China's border.
As a result, it has resisted punitive measures that might push Kim's regime towards collapse.
Park indicated that South Korea should be more willing to act unilaterally if other countries lagged behind.
'We must throw away the impotent feeling of relying on the international community's sanctions... and mobilise all possible methods to solve the problem ourselves,' she said.
After her speech, the Yonhap news agency cited defence officials in Seoul as saying four US F-22 stealth fighter jets would fly a mission over South Korea on Wednesday in a show of force aimed at Pyongyang.
South Korea is also due to begin talks with the US this week on the possible deployment of an advanced US missile defence system that China and Russia have warned could undermine stability in East Asia.
Defence officials in Seoul and Washington say bringing the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence System (THAAD) to the South has become a clear necessity given the progress North Korea was making on its ballistic missile programme.
But China sees it as a threat to its own nuclear deterrent and Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui reiterated Beijing's concerns during meeting Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart in Seoul.
'We exchanged views on the THAAD issue and the Chinese side expressed its opposition,' Zhang told reporters. 'We hope the relevant sides will act prudently.'
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