WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hoped North Korea would choose peace over war, a response to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un saying he would introduce a"new strategic weapon" in the near future.
In a separate interview with CBS News, Mr Pompeo was asked whether he was alarmed by Mr Kim's statements - Mr Kim said there were no grounds for North Korea to be bound any longer by a self-declared moratorium on intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear bomb testing. Mr Trump, who became the first US leader to meet a North Korean leader in 2018, has repeatedly held up the moratorium, in place since 2017, as evidence that his policy of engagement was working.
There were no grounds for North Korea to be bound any longer by the self-declared nuclear and ICBM test moratorium as the United States makes"gangster-like demands" including continuing joint military drills with South Korea, adopting cutting edge weapons and imposing sanctions, Mr Kim said, according to KCNA.
"We will reliably put on constant alert the powerful nuclear deterrent capable of containing the nuclear threats from the US and guaranteeing our long-term security."
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