North Korea will build “the world’s most powerful” nuclear program, Kim Jong-un has said

North Korea intends to create the most powerful nuclear force in the world, dictator Kim Jong Un said on Sunday.

Kim announced the goal as he promoted officers involved in a ballistic missile launch he oversaw earlier in November, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. His push is at odds with decades of ill-fated US containment efforts the country’s nuclear program.

“[Our] the ultimate goal is to possess the world’s most powerful strategic force, an absolute force unprecedented in the century,” Kim said, before declaring that the country’s scientists had made “a great leap forward in the development of the technology to install nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles.” .”

Kim’s threat came as the country launched dozens of missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons into the sea east of the Korean Peninsula. The US and South Korea have also increased military exercises in a show of force against the regime.

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The US and South Korea warned about this in early November Kim’s regime will ‘end’ if he ever used nuclear weapons.

The warning came hours after North Korea fired an unprecedented 23 missiles in one day in its own show of force.

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“Any nuclear attack against the United States or its allies and partners, including the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, is unacceptable and will lead to the end of the Kim regime,” South Korean Defense Minister Jeon Sup Lee said at the time. at a joint press conference with Defense Minister Lloyd Austin.

In this photo released by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, front, claps his hands during a test fire of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24. , 2022 (Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)
(Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea has become increasingly aggressive since the US and South Korea began joint military exercises in September. The country also sent 12 warplanes near the South Korean border in early October. Eight fighters and four bombers participated in the sortie. South Korea responded by launching 30 warplanes, but the two groups did not engage in combat.

This photo released by the North Korean government shows what it says is a test fire of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24.
(Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

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Operation Vigilant Storm, a joint U.S.-South Korean Air Force exercise, was scheduled to end on Nov. 4, but was extended by several days in response to North Korea’s launches. During the exercise, allied fighters and bombers conducted simulated attacks on South Korea 24 hours a day.