A locally conformally Kähler (LCK) manifold is a manifold which is covered by a Kähler manifold, with the deck transform group acting by homotheties. We show that the search for LCK metrics on Oeljeklaus-Toma manifolds leads to a (yet another) variation on Kronecker's theorem on units. In turn, this implies that on any Oeljeklaus-Toma manifold associated to a number field with

complex embeddings and

real embeddings with

there is no LCK metric.