North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador, who warned that the situation on the Korean peninsula has now reached a stage where "nuclear war may break out at any moment." Kim In-ryong disclosed this while speaking to the UN General Assembly's disarmament committee, explained that no other country in the world has been subjected to such an "extreme and direct nuclear threat" from the United States since the 1970s.
With this in mind, he said that the country had the right to manufacture nuclear weapons of their own in self-defence. He pointed out that the large-scale military exercises every year using “nuclear assets” and said what is more dangerous is what he referred to as a US plan to stage a secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership.
Kim warned that North Korean missiles can target any part of the United States, with the country's east coast now within range of its missiles. "The entire U.S. mainland is within our firing range and if the U.S. dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe," he said.
North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador called his country’s nuclear and missile arsenal "a precious strategic asset that cannot be reversed or bartered for anything." President Trump has recently tweeted that attempts to negotiate with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, are a "waste of time".
The European Union has announced new sanctions against the country after it emerged they'd been developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Vladimir Putin also made clear on Monday that Russia would be cutting some of its ties with North Korea in line with UN sanctions.
