SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for ‘indefinitely’ strengthening his regime’s nuclear weapons capacity, state media reported Wednesday, as Pyongyang continues to demonstrate its growing military prowess amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Kim made the remark as he reviewed the production of weapons-grade nuclear material at a facility and received updates on long-term plans for the sector, state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.

Images released by KCNA show the North Korean leader conferring with a team of officials among long rows of cylindrical centrifuges inside an industrial warehouse. The centrifuges appear similar to those seen in Kim’s September visit to a new uranium enrichment site used to produce fissile materials for nuclear weapons.

‘The DPRK’s security situation, the world’s most unstable situation in which a long-term confrontation with the most vicious hostile countries is inevitable, makes it indispensable for the country to steadily strengthen the nuclear shield,’ Kim said, according to KCNA…”