Kim Jong Un Warns North Korea Could ‘Preemptively’ Use Nuclear Weapons

Kim Jong Un Warns North Korea Could ‘Preemptively’ Use Nuclear Weapons
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un acknowledges the officers and soldiers who took part in a military parade, in North Korea, on April 27, 2022. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
The Associated Press
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SEOUL, South Korea—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un warned again that the North could preemptively use its nuclear weapons if threatened, as he praised his top army officials for a massive military parade in the capital, Pyongyang, last week.

Kim expressed “firm will” to continue developing his nuclear-armed military so that it could “preemptively and thoroughly contain and frustrate all dangerous attempts and threatening moves, including ever-escalating nuclear threats from hostile forces, if necessary,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Saturday.