North Korean leader: a nuclear arsenal is a vital deterrent



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This statement was new news that the Stalinist state had no intention of giving up its nuclear arsenal.

Kim Jong Un spoke at a veterans conference to mark the 67th anniversary of the ceasefire that ended the Korean War, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Up to three million Koreans were killed in the 1950-1953 conflict. North and South Korea are still formally at war, as the ceasefire agreement has yet to be replaced by a peace treaty.

“Due to our credible and effective defensive nuclear potential, there will be no more words like war in this country,” said Kim Jong Un, quoted by KCNA.

“Our national security and our future will be firmly guaranteed forever,” he added.

Pyongyang claims that it needs a nuclear arsenal to protect itself against a possible American invasion.

The country has been developing a nuclear weapons program for decades and, as a result, has become a target for international sanctions.

Relations between the two countries on the Korean peninsula have been frozen for many months after the failed meeting between Kim Jong Un and President of the United States Donald Trump last year in Hanoi.

Those talks were based on the assumption that North Korea would be inclined to abandon its nuclear arsenal in exchange for easing sanctions.

Kim Jong Un announced in December the end of the moratorium on nuclear cartridge and ballistic missile tests. Pyongyang has also repeatedly said that it does not intend to continue negotiations unless Washington abandons its “hostile” policy towards North Korea.



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