South Korea has announced the "Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation" (KMPR) plan to annihilate Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea, through intensive bombing. The KMPR would be triggered in case the North shows any signs of a nuclear attack. According to a government official: "Every Pyongyang district, particularly where the North Korean leadership is possibly hidden, will be completely destroyed by ballistic missiles and high-explosive shells as soon as the North shows any signs of using a nuclear weapon. In other words, the North’s capital city will be reduced to ashes and removed from the map." Yonhap News (Seoul)
The attack would be conducted with conventional weapons, as South Korea has no nuclear weapons, although some Seoul officials have been calling for a nuclear development program in the South. Of note is that the KMPR threat is of a pre-emptive attack. That is, the South would not wait for a nuclear attack. Instead, the KMPR attack would be launched "if signs of the impending use of nuclear weapons are detected or in the event of a war." In the KMPR scenario, South Korea will deploy its Hyunmoo 2A and Hyunmoo 2B ballistic missiles, with a range of between 300 and 500 kilometers as well as the Hyunmoo-3 cruise missiles with a range of 1000 kilometers. "The KMPR is the ultimate operation concept the military can have in the absence of its own nuclear weapons," according to a government official. The threat is also highly personal in that the North Korean child dictator Kim Jong-un will be specifically targeted with "decapitation strikes" on the North Korean leadership.... Korea Times and Japan Times