North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on his nuclear scientists to increase the production of material used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons to make bombs.
The news in state media on Tuesday came after several missile tests this month and increasing threats of using weapons against Kim’s enemies.
US-South Korea military exercises and North Korea’s weapons tests have raised tensions in the region.
The Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim spoke at a meeting on Monday with officials and scientists at a state-run nuclear weapons institute about his goal of “rapidly” expanding the nuclear arsenal by producing the fuel needed for the bomb. stressed the need to increase nuclear power and have entrusted “an important task” to its nuclear industry.
However, it is not yet known what has been entrusted. Photos released by the agency showed Kim talking to officials in a hall. Various types of weapons including 10 capsules of khaki color were seen kept in this hall.
