“The present situation, in which new records are set in terms of practical action hostile toward the DPRK, stresses the need to break records in our responsive action, proportional or more offensive in its nature,” the KCNA news agency quoted Kim Yo Jong as saying.
Referring to joint military drills held in recent months by US forces and allies in the Asia-Pacific region as a “US-led war rehearsal,” Kim vowed that “our will to defend our sovereignty will be expressed in clearer action and there will be never ever change in the course of intensifying the nuclear war deterrence.”
“I remind the enemy once again that if it is judged that the supreme interests of our nation and its military sovereignty and security environment in the region have been seriously violated by their military manoeuvres,” Kim went on, the DPRK’s military will “mobilise all means available to cope with it.”
The statement was Kim’s second in two days. On Thursday, she rejected renewed calls for her country’s denuclearisation at an International Atomic Energy Agency conference and reiterated Pyongyang’s position that its status as a nuclear weapons state is irreversible. (Agencies)
