North Korea's Kim says country will exercise its position as nuclear state, KCNA reports
Kim also ordered faster development of conventional weapons and a 10,000-ton strategic guided missile cruiser, KCNA said.
- On Tuesday, Pyongyang's state media reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over the second plenary meeting of the ninth central committee, calling for efforts to increase nuclear assets "with a goal of overtaking the world."
- The three-day session, which concluded Monday, assessed policy progress since the major February congress in 2021 and reaffirmed the country's commitment to expanding nuclear forces, describing them as "the core of the military sovereignty" of the nation.
- Kim also ordered the buildup of conventional weapons and accelerated construction of a 10,000-ton-class strategic guided missile cruiser, with plans to be carried out "with increasing speed."
- Pyongyang reiterated its designation of South Korea as its most hostile nation, while Kim blamed the United States for worsening global conflicts and regional tensions through its combined nuclear posture with Seoul.
- Emphasizing a "line of no retreat," officials declared that exercising the country's position as a nuclear weapons state is the "only way" to cope with an unpredictable international security situation.
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The North Korean leader has called for the nuclear capabilities of his country to be strengthened, which is the only way to face the unpredictable and complex global security situation, said Kim.
During a three-day meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee that concluded on Monday, Kim set "tasks to dynamically work on continuously increasing powerful defense assets in our own way and with the goal of dominating the world," the official KCNA news agency, the regime's propaganda mouthpiece, reported. It pointed out that nuclear weapons are the country's "core military sovereignty" and "a reference point in implementing dete…
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has announced an accelerated military armament.
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