President Yoon Suk Yeol has likened the ongoing cargo truckers’ strike to North Korea’s nuclear threat.

A senior presidential official told KBS on Monday that Yoon made the remark regarding the collective walkout by the Cargo Truckers Solidarity union during a recent closed-door meeting with his top aides.

According to the aide, the president said that the nation would not be facing the North Korean crisis it does now had a policy been implemented based on a zero-tolerance principle against North Korea's nuclear weapons.

The official said that the president likewise stressed taking a principled response to the strike.

Another presidential aide said that the likelihood of issuing a return-to-work order on Tuesday for drivers in other industries such as oil and steel is "half and half."

The government has already ordered cement truckers to immediately return to work.