A North Korean envoy says his country has developed nuclear missiles and is prepared to use them any time.
North Korean ambassador to Britain, Hyun Hak Bong, said in an interview with Sky News on Friday that his government would use the missiles in response to a nuclear attack by the United States.
“It is not the United States that has a monopoly on nuclear weapons strikes,” Ambassador Hyun Hak-bong told Sky at the isolated Asian country’s London embassy.
Asked if that meant North Korea, which quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1993, had the capability to fire a nuclear missile now, he replied: “Any time, any time, yes.”
“If the United States strike us, we should strike back. We are ready for conventional war with conventional war, we are ready for nuclear war with nuclear war. We do not want war but we are not afraid of war,” he added.
In a speech on March 3, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong said his country had the power to deter an “ever-increasing nuclear threat” by the US with a pre-emptive strike if necessary.
He also denounced military exercises staged by South Korea and the US as provocative.
North Korea is thought to have a handful of crude nuclear bombs and has conducted three nuclear tests since 2006. But experts are divided on how
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