For the first time in seven months, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen a rare large-scale military parade, showing off powerful weapons systems and vowing to speed up the development of his nuclear arsenal while also delivering a chilling warning about its potential use.
“To cope with the rapidly-changing political and military situations and all the possible crises of the future, we will continue to take measures for further developing the nuclear forces of our state at the fastest possible speed,” Kim said in the speech reported Tuesday by the official Korean Central News Agency.
In the speech, the North Korean leader, who was dressed in a white military uniform and surrounded by top military officials, said that while the primary role of his country’s nuclear arsenal was as a deterrent, its “Nukes can never be confined to the single mission.”
Although the North has claimed to have mastered building larger nuclear bombs, resuming nuclear testing at its Punggye-ri test site would help the regime in its quest to build its own smaller battlefield nukes, known as tactical weapons, which could be deployed on its growing number of midrange missiles that put Japan within striking distance.
In recent months, the North has tested a record-breaking number of new weapons designed to evade missile defenses, demonstrating that Kim has no intention of letting Washington and its allies forget about deadlocked negotiations over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, even as U.S. President Joe Biden remains laser-focused on the bloody war in Ukraine. more profitable, despite being on track to meet ambitious financial goals the company set for 2023.
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