NKorea eyes to enhance nuclear arsenal

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 02, 2023 12:10 am

(UPDATED) 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 Sunday.

In a report at the end of a key party meeting in Pyongyang, Kim called for 'an exponential increase of the country's nuclear arsenal,' the official KCNA reported.

ALARMING OBJECTIVE A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a railway station in Seoul on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, after North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles, according to South Korea’s military. AFP PHOTO

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