SEOUL: North Korea's Kim Jong Un has called for a major increase in the country's nuclear arsenal, including mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and developing new missiles for nuclear counterstrikes, state media said on Sunday (Jan 1). In a report at the end of a key party meeting in Pyongyang, Kim ca
SEOUL: North Korea's Kim Jong Un has called for a major increase in the country's nuclear arsenal, including mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and developing new missiles for nuclear counterstrikes, state media said on Sunday .
Military tensions on the Korean peninsula rose sharply in 2022 as the North conducted sanctions-busting weapons tests nearly every month, including firing its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile. In a separate KCNA report, Kim said the weapons put South Korea"as a whole within the range of strike and capable of carrying tactical nuclear warhead".
In 2022, Kim said he wanted his country to have the world's most powerful nuclear force and declared the North an"irreversible" nuclear state. North Korea's end-of-year plenary meetings are typically used by the regime to unveil the country's domestic and foreign policy priorities for the year ahead.
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