North Korea’s Kim Jong Un directed his military to accelerate nuclear weapons development, warning that U.S.-South Korean military drills could ignite war, according to state media, Newsweek reported.
Kim called the security environment “more serious day by day” and warned that annual U.S.-South Korean military drills include a “nuclear element” that could trigger conflict.
“The security environment around North Korea requires us to make a radical and swift change in the existing military theory and practice and rapid expansion of nuclearization,” the Rodong Sinmun newspaper quoted Kim as saying. He accused Washington and Seoul of intensifying exercises and showing “their will to ignite a war.”
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