Video: South Korean president 'trusts military's judgement' in the event of attack by North Korea South Korean president Park Geun-hye told her military to set aside political considerations and "respond strongly" should North Korea attack the peninsula. North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down the border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation Pyongyang is angry about joint South Korea-US military drills and new UN sanctions following its nuclear test last month. State TV earlier broadcast footage which it claimed showed soldiers and civilians attending mass rallies in support of the North Korea military.