The warning comes after two U.S. supersonic bombers flew over South Korea on Tuesday in a show of force following North Korea’s fifth and largest-ever nuclear test last week.
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North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho reiterated his country’s insistence that its nuclear weapons program was for self-defense, according to Sputh Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
United States and South Korea for more sanctions.
A recent episode of the snappily named “The stage of optimism that Songun presented – Volume 11”, which airs on state-controlled Korea Central Television (KCTV), lampooned the USA leader and “oppressed” South Koreans ahead of the North’s nuclear warhead test this month.
Earlier this week, thousands of citizens and soldiers along with high-ranking government officials attended a freaky rally in Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung square.
The latest event reinforces South Africa’s conviction that nuclear weapons continue to constitute a grave threat to worldwide peace and security, said the spokesperson.
South Korea has asked Indonesia to help persuade North Korea to stop its nuclear program through a United Nations resolution mechanism.
During the rally, a senior government official hailed the reclusive country’s successful nuclear test.
Siegfried Hecker, director from 1986 to 1997 of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the principal nuclear facility of the United States government, provides an estimate of the nuclear material held by the Pyongyang regime in an article published this week by the Korean-American institute of Johns Hopkins University.
On Tuesday, two US B-1 bombers flew over South Korea in a show of force and solidarity with its ally.
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North Korea’s weapons enhancements, including the testing of various types of missiles this year at an unprecedented rate, have alarmed neighbours South Korea and Japan.
