N.Korea to equip its navy with nuclear weapons, says Kim

During a visit to the Navy Command on Sunday, Kim Jong-un

said: “The Navy of the DPRK would become a component of the state nuclear deterrence carrying out the strategic duty.”Kim said units of different North Korean armed services “would be equipped with new weaponry according to the policy of expanding the tactical nuclear weapons operation,” Anadolu Agency citing Pyongyang-based state-run KCNA News reported on Tuesday.

He urged the naval personnel “to continue to set high targets and organise and carry on the actual maneuvers, which are close to actual war as much as possible ... augmenting the combat capabilities for definitely deterring the US imperialist aggressor forces’ and their followers’ ever-escalating reckless moves to provoke a nuclear war.”

Separately, South Korea, the US, and Japan Tuesday conducted a joint missile defense drill in the international waters south of the Korean Peninsula, it reported. The exercise was in response to North Korea’s claimed space rocket launch the previous week, according to the US Indo-Pacific Command.Bernama

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