North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with his daughter. KCNA/REUTERS
North Korean number one Kim Jong Un has called for increased production of “military nuclear material” and build more powerful weapons, state media reported Tuesday (March 28). This latest threat from Kim, which echoes an earlier promise to increase nuclear weapons production “exponentially”comes just ahead of the scheduled arrival of a US Navy aircraft carrier in South Korea on Tuesday.
After speaking with officials from the country’s nuclear weapons institute, the leader says North Korea must prepare to use its nuclear weapons “anywhere and anytime”, according to the official KCNA agency. He also called on officials to “develop the production of military nuclear material in the long term in order to implement in depth the plan (…) for the exponential increase in nuclear arsenals”. Kim also has “encouraged the further production of powerful nuclear weapons”KCNA added.
When North Korea has prepared “Perfectly” its nuclear weapons systems, “the enemy will fear us and dare not provoke the sovereignty of our state, our system and our people”said Kim, according to the same source.