North Korea says it has revamped and restarted its main nuclear complex in Yongbyon and is working to improve its nuclear weapons “in quality and quantity”, a move likely to rekindle tension with South Korea and the US.
“If the US and other hostile forces persistently seek their reckless hostile policy towards the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] and behave mischievously, the DPRK is fully ready to cope with them with nuclear weapons any time,” the director of North Korea’s Atomic Energy Institute was quoted as saying by the official KCNA news agency.
He added that the country’s atomic scientists had “made innovations day by day” to “guarantee the reliability of the nuclear deterrent”.