North Korea's leader pledges to continue nuclear development

Kim Jong Un speaks at the ruling party convention.

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North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, described the United States as "the biggest enemy" and demanded that Washington stop what he called its "hostile policy toward Pyongyang", pledging to continue nuclear development in his country.

In North Korea's first comment on the presidential transition in the United States, Kim predicted that Washington's policy against Pyongyang would not change, regardless of who governs the country.

He said that the key to future relations between the two countries is to end the "hostile" position from the White House, and the North Korean Central News Agency quoted him as saying: "Our foreign political activities should focus on suppressing and subjugating the United States, which is the main obstacle and the biggest enemy to our revolutionary development."

In his remarks during the eighth conference of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, Kim called for "the continuous pursuit of building a nuclear power."

Nuclear talks between North Korea and the United States have stalled since the unsuccessful summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim, which took place in Vietnam in 2019.

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