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‘Nuclear war killer’ US stirring pot with China and Russia by preparing for conflict, North Korea says
- Calls in Washington to prepare for simultaneous wars with Russia and China were an ‘extremely risky’ sign, North Korean state media said on Tuesday
- North Korea’s own nuclear programme was self-defensive, it said, quoting a researcher who accused the US of destroying world peace
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North Korea’s nuclear programme is a self-defensive move to head off a nuclear war in the face of the US pursuit of “nuclear supremacy”, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.
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Kim Kwang-myong, whom KCNA described as a researcher at the Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace, accused the US of stoking regional tension with its nuclear programme and blamed it for strategic instability destroying world peace.
The comments come as nuclear-armed North Korea has raised alarm in the region with regular launches of missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles that can strike the continental United States.
The dark clouds of a dreadful thermonuclear war can never be wiped out as long as the US, a heinous nuclear war killer … exists
Kim singled out the recent findings by the US Strategic Posture Commission calling for enhancing the country’s nuclear weapons modernisation programme in preparation for potential simultaneous wars with Russia and China, as yet another “extremely risky” sign and a “hegemonic move”.
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“The US, the world’s biggest nuclear weapons state and the world’s first nuclear user which adopted the pre-emptive nuclear attack on other countries as its national policy, is talking about ‘nuclear threat’ from someone. This is a sophism,” Kim said.
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