North Korea tells United Nations it is a ‘responsible nuclear state’
SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea defended its right to maintain a nuclear weapons program at a United Nations disarmament conference in Geneva on Tuesday, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump surprised allies by referring to the North as a ‘nuclear power.’
‘As a responsible nuclear weapons state, we will continue to make efforts to prevent all forms of war and to protect peace and stability,’ Jo Chol Su, North Korea’s permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said during the conference.
Jo blamed the United States for an ‘astronomical amount of arms buildup and undisguised nuclear proliferation.’
‘The U.S. and its allies keep on supplying high-tech military hardware … resulting in conflicts and bloodshed in many parts of the world,’ Jo said.
The North Korean representative pointed to recent trilateral air exercises held by the United States, South Korea and Japan, which included U.S. B-1B strategic bombers, as creating a dangerous climate in the region…”
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