North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced at a Labor Party plenary meeting held at the end of last year that he would increase the number of nuclear warheads exponentially.
In a report to the plenary session, Secretary General Kim stated that the current situation in which South Korea is approaching as an obvious enemy of North Korea "highlights the importance and necessity of mass production of tactical nuclear weapons and calls for an exponential increase in the country's nuclear weapons stockpile." .
Secretary General Kim also said that North Korea's nuclear force "regards war deterrence and peace and stability as its first mission, but if deterrence fails, it will carry out its second mission as well." something else," he said.
It is a reiterated commitment to using nuclear weapons as a means of aggression in the event of an armed conflict.
"The task of developing another intercontinental ballistic missile system with a rapid nuclear counterattack capability as its basic mission was presented," said Kim, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
This seems to mean intercontinental ballistic missiles that use solid fuel.
KCNA said in Kim's report, "Based on the analysis of external challenges, a significant policy decision was made to spur the strengthening of self-defense defense capabilities."
(Photo = Chosun Central TV screen, Yonhap News)