N. Korea Says Has Power to Deter US ‘Nuclear Threat’

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong said on Tuesday that his country had the power to deter an “ever-increasing nuclear threat” by the United States with a preemptive strike if necessary. His rare speech at the U.N.-backed Conference on Disarmament drew a rebuke from the U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood who urged Pyongyang to stop making threats and rid itself of nuclear weapons. Ri said joint military exercises being staged by South Korea and the United States were “unprecedentedly...

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