North Korea on Thursday warned that it would have no choice but to “develop and test” arms to wipe out the “lethal weapons” increasingly being deployed in South Korea.
In a statement denouncing Seoul for its recent acquisition of a number of new stealth jets from the U.S., an unnamed policy director at the foreign ministry's Institute for American Studies said the move would serve to heighten tensions on the peninsula.
North Korea on Thursday warned that it would have no choice but to “develop and test” arms to wipe out the “lethal weapons” increasingly being deployed in South Korea.
In a statement denouncing Seoul for its recent acquisition of a number of new stealth jets from the U.S., an unnamed policy director at the foreign ministry's Institute for American Studies said the move would serve to heighten tensions on the peninsula.
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