North Korea Claims It Will Accelerate Nuclear Program In Response to US Pressure

Does anyone think their nuclear program wasn’t already accelerated?  I doubt the Trump administration is going to be too impressed with this claim:

North Korea pledged Monday to bolster its nuclear weapons program at maximum speed, issuing the country’s first official response to the recently released North Korea policy by the U.S. administration, which focuses on “maximum pressure and engagement.”

“Now that the U.S. is kicking up the overall racket for sanctions and pressure against the DPRK, pursuant to its new DPRK policy called ‘maximum pressure and engagement’, the DPRK will speed up at the maximum pace the measure for bolstering its nuclear deterrence,” a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement.

DPRK is the abbreviation of the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“The DPRK’s measures for bolstering the nuclear force to the maximum will be taken in a consecutive and successive way at any moment and any place decided by its supreme leadership,” according to the statement, carried by the state news wire Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).  [Yonhap]

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