Nuclear power in North Korea: Kim Jong Un’s worrying statement

In the same speech, not filmed but reported by the official KCNA agency, Kim underlined the need, according to him, for a “mass production of tactical nuclear weapons and calls for exponential increase of the country’s nuclear arsenal”. North Korea’s “supreme leader” also welcomed the fact that its South Korean neighbor is now “completely at hand” nuclear.

These worrying statements come in an already tense context, with a record number of launches by Pyongyang, the latest of which were three short-range ballistic missiles this weekend. And on December 26, five North Korean drones entered South Korean airspace, including flying north of the capital Seoul.