South Korean President Park Geun-hye is warning North Korea that Seoul plans to take a harder approach towards the regime if it continues work on developing a nuclear weapon.
In a nationally televised address before the National Assembly Tuesday, President Park defended her decision to close the Kaesong industrial park. She repeated previous accusations that Pyongyang had siphoned the $100 million South Korean businesses pay in annual salaries to the 53,000 North Koreans employed at the park, and used it to fund their nuclear program.
Park told lawmakers since it was apparent that the current approach of diplomatic "goodwill" with North Korea has not worked, the government would take "strong and effective measures" to finally convince the North that its nuclear development program "will only speed up regime collapse."