While on Tuesday VP Harris and former president Trump were squaring off in a debate which only touched on foreign policy a couple of times, and briefly related to Ukraine and Gaza, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un issued statements vowing to “exponentially” boost the nation’s nuclear arsenal.
Kim gave a speech marking the 76th founding anniversary of his government at the start of this week. He said that a nuclear overhaul is needed to defend the country from “hostile” forces and that North Korea faces “a grave threat” as a result of the “reckless expansion” the United States-led military bloc in the region.
North Korea will “redouble its measures and efforts to make all the armed forces of the state, including the nuclear force, fully ready for combat,” he sated.
In particular Kim was reacting to a new US-South Korean defense agreement signed in July. The new agreement allows for the integration of US nuclear weapons and South Korean conventional weapons to defend the peninsula from the nuclear-armed north if need be.
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