North Korea's Kim orders 'exponential' increase of nuclear arsenal, as tensions soar
Jan 01, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for an "exponential" increase in the country's nuclear arsenal, including mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and developing new missiles for nuclear counter-strikes, state media said Sunday.
In a report at the end of a key party meeting in Pyongyang, Kim said the country must "overwhelmingly beef up the military muscle" in 2023 in response to what it called US and South Korean hostility, the official KCNA agency reported.
Claiming that Washington and Seoul were set on "isolating and stifling" the North, Kim said his country would focus on the "mass-producing of tactical nuclear weapons" and develop "another ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) system whose main mission is quick nuclear counter-strike."
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