(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for developing new
intercontinental ballistic missiles and a larger nuclear arsenal to
counter U.S.-led threats, state media said on Sunday, trend reports citing reuters .
At a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party, Kim highlighted the
need to secure 'overwhelming military power' to defend its
sovereignty and security.
The meeting came amid cross-border tensions over last week's
intrusion by North Korean drones into the South, and the North's
series of missile launches, including intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBMs).
Kim accused Washington and Seoul of trying to 'isolate and
stifle' Pyongyang with U.S. nuclear strike assets constantly
deployed in South Korea, calling it 'unprecedented in human
history.'
He vowed to develop another ICBM system 'whose main mission is
quick nuclear counter-strike' under a plan to bolster the country's
nuclear force, the official KCNA news agency said.
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