North Korea Threatens to Increase Nuclear Arsenal

North Korea yesterday threatened to boost its nuclear arsenal “a thousand times” after the United Nations approved a resolution of concern on Pyongyang’s human rights record, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Nov. 21).

Pyongyang dismissed the resolution adopted last week as an “absurd attempt” by the United States to take down the North Korean government. The European Union had introduced the resolution.

“If one is to protect human rights one should have state power among other things and powerful deterrent to defend its state power,” North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Monday in a statement.

“The Korean people will ... defend the precious socialist system and bolster up the deterrent for self-defense a thousand times under any circumstance and situation,” the ministry said (Agence France-Presse/Khaleej Times, Nov. 22).

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