North Korea intends to build the world’s most powerful nuclear force, dictator Kim Jong Un declared on Sunday.
Kim announced the target while promoting officers involved in a ballistic missile launch he had observed in early November, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. His push runs counter to decades of failed US efforts to curb the country’s nuclear program.
“[Our] The ultimate goal is to possess the most powerful strategic force in the world, the absolute force unprecedented in the century,” Kim said, before saying that the country’s scientists have made a “wonderful leap in the development of technology to mount nuclear warheads. in ballistic missiles”. .”
Kim’s threat comes as the country has launched dozens of nuclear-capable missiles into the sea east of the Korean peninsula. The United States and South Korea have also intensified military exercises in a show of force against the regime.
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This undated photo provided on November 27, 2022 by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and his daughter, right, walking toward a photo session with those involved in the recent release of what a Hwasong says. -17 intercontinental ballistic missiles. (Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
(Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
The United States and South Korea warned in early November that the Kim regime would be “over” if it ever resorted to the use of nuclear weapons.
The warning came hours after North Korea fired an unprecedented 23 missiles in a single day in its own show of force.
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“Any nuclear attack against the United States or its allies and partners, including the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, is unacceptable and will result in the end of the Kim regime,” South Korean Defense Minister Jong- said at the time. sup read. at a joint press conference with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
In this photo released by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, front view, applauds during a test fire of what he claims to be a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24. , 2022. (Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
(Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
North Korea has become increasingly aggressive since the United States and South Korea began joint military exercises in September. The country also flew 12 fighter jets near the border with South Korea in early October. The sortie included eight fighter jets and four bombers. South Korea responded with a flight of 30 fighter jets, but the two groups did not engage.
This photo released by the North Korean government shows what it says is a test fire of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24.
(Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
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The joint US-South Korean air force exercise, Operation Vigilant Storm, was scheduled to end on November 4 but was extended by several days in response to North Korean launches. In the exercise, Allied fighter jets and bombers carried out simulated attacks on South Korea around the clock.
