Kim is believed to have made the comments as he supervised military exercises, which involved assessing newly-developed rocket launchers.
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“At an extreme time when the Americans. are urging war and disaster on other countries and people, the only way to defend our sovereignty and right to live is to bolster our nuclear capability”, Mr Kim said.
Also on Thursday, South Korea adopted a long-delayed security law to set up an anti-espionage unit that was passed by parliament late on Wednesday, and another law aimed at improving human rights in North Korea.
South Korea’s Defence Ministry said it was trying to determine if the projectiles, launched at 10 a.m. (0100 GMT) from the North’s east coast, were short-range missiles or artillery fire.
Despite the North’s nuclear threats, the USA raised doubts over North Korea’s ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon and to load it on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Meanwhile, the US and South Korea have begun talks on the possible deployment of a USA missile defense shield in the south.
Kim said the prevailing situation when strategic and tactical weapons have been deployed to South Korea has proved the DPRK’s foresight to choose to become a nuclear state and try to strengthen nuclear power in all ways.
They also prohibit exports of coal, iron or iron ore that are allegedly being used to fund North Korea’s nuclear and space programmes, but not those for general economic use – a potential loophole.
This followed the United Nations security council’s unanimous approval of the toughest sanctions against the regime in two decades over its nuclear and rocket tests.
The United Nations has adopted its toughest sanctions to date on Pyongyang over a recent nuclear test and rocket launch.
“This is the largest deal in Gazprom’s history based on the size of financing obtained directly from one credit organisation, and the first bilateral credit deal with a Chinese bank”, Gazprom said. But North Korea can probably place nuclear warheads on its shorter-range Scuds and its 1,300-kilometer-range Rodong missiles, which can strike targets in South Korea and Japan, said Lee Choon Geun, an analyst from South Korea’s state-funded Science and Technology Policy Institute.
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In the wake of the “gangster-like” UN resolution pushed by the United States and its South Korean ally, North Koreans are now “waiting for an order of combat to annihilate the enemy with their surging wrath”, he added.
