North Korea has closed its ruling party’s five-yearly congress with a monumental military parade as leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his leather jacket-clad daughter, projected defiance over his nuclear arsenal.
The government had “permanently and irreversibly solidified” North Korea’s status as a nuclear power, state media said at the conclusion of the ninth Workers’ Party congress. Pyongyang pledged to “increase the number of nuclear weapons and expand the means and space for nuclear operation and use”, it added.
Despite the defiant tone, Kim left the door open to talks with Washington, provided the US “withdraws its policy of confrontation by respecting our country’s current status”, a reference to North Korea’s nuclear stockpile.
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