North Korea escalates nuclear rhetoric

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North Korea has escalated its fiery rhetoric over its threatened use of nuclear weapons, days after a U.S. soldier was taken into custody for crossing the border from South Korea. The country's defense minister, Kang Sun Nam, has said it would approve the use of nuclear weapons "in case [a] nuclear attack is launched against it or it is judged that the use of nuclear weapons against it is imminent," the state-run KCNA news agency reported Thursday. The warning came after 23-year-old Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King fled across the border during a tour of the Joint Security Area, a...