North Korea's nuclear program has been growing. (Wikimedia Commons)

After threatening a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States and South Korea, North Korea followed through on a threat to cut off its hotline with the south and "blow apart" the armistice between the two countries, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

With the North's recent aggression, South Korean have sensed that the relative lack of experience of the country's two leaders could mean disastrous effects if boundaries are overstepped.

Influential South Koreans have begun calling for the South's government to develop its own nuclear program to match the North's steadily developing one, according to The New York Times.

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