North Korea wants to become a nuclear superpower
Kim: “Our arsenal must be greater than that of the rest of the world”
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for efforts to further strengthen his country’s nuclear capabilities “with the aim of surpassing the rest of the world”. This was reported by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), as cited by Yonhap.
The Congress
The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) convened the second plenary meeting of its Ninth Central Committee on Saturday; the three-day meeting was chaired by Leader Kim, to assess the progress of the country’s policies in the first half of the year and review the agenda set at a major party congress held in February. The meeting reaffirmed North Korea’s commitment to expanding its nuclear forces, describing them as “the core of the nation’s military sovereignty” and “the linchpin of the implementation of the deterrence or war strategy”. The report states that the plenary session unanimously decided that “fully exercising the status of a nuclear-armed state is the most appropriate and only way to actively and confidently address the unpredictable international military and political situation, which is becoming increasingly complex in many respects”.
