Kim Jong Un Says North Korea Will Respond To Threats With Nuclear Weapons

Seoul:

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed that his country will respond to continued threats by using nuclear weapons, state news agency KCNA reported Saturday, a day after Pyongyang fired an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Kim said that Pyongyang “will resolutely react to nukes with nuclear weapons and to total confrontation with all-out confrontation,” the KCNA report said, adding that Kim oversaw the missile launch in person.

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