DPRK to Enhance Nuclear Deterrent Force: Spokesman

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DPRK to Enhance Nuclear Deterrent Force: Spokesman

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will enhance its nuclear deterrent force for its self-defense, a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will enhance its nuclear deterrent force for its self-defense, a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

"With the danger (from the United States) increasing day by day, we will, following the principle of justified self-defense, step up the self-defensive nuclear deterrent force to counter the US strategy of isolation and containment against the DPRK," the spokesman said in a Korean-language statement released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

"We make clear once more that the DPRK reserves the right of retaliation against the physical and hostile acts which are regarded as a violation of the Armistice Agreement and a declaration of war," the spokesman said.

The DPRK said on June 9 that it will have no way but to seek "nuclear deterrent force" if the United States does not abandon its anti-DPRK policy and continues to threaten the DPRK with nuclear weapons.

In the statement, the spokesman said the multilateral talks demanded by the US are not meant to settle the nuclear issue in a peaceful way but to disguise its isolation and containment against the DPRK.

The DPRK does not have expectations over the multilateral talks as the US is deteriorating the situation unilaterally, the spokesman added.

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