North Korea says its nuclear complex fully operational as it takes aim at U.S.

North Korea has said its main nuclear complex is fully operational and the country is ready to face U.S. hostility with nuclear weapons “at any time”. Its nuclear weapons are being improved “in quality and quantity”, an official quoted by the state news agency KCNA said. The director of North Korea’s Atomic Energy Institute said scientists had “made innovations day by day” to “guarantee the reliability of the nuclear deterrent…as required by the prevailing situation”.

If the US and other hostile forces persistently seek their reckless hostile policy towards the DPRK and behave mischievously, the DPRK is fully ready to cope with them with nuclear weapons any time.

North Korea’s Atomic Energy Institute

The words come a day after Pyongyang’s warning that it is ready to launch “satellites” on rockets banned by the West. This would mark the ruling communist party’s anniversary in October and could put pressure on the US to resume talks. The North’s National Aerospace Development Administration director said satellites would be used for weather forecasts, adding that space development is “a sovereign state’s legitimate right” and that the North Koreans are “fully determined to exercise that right”. Only last month, North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his troops to be “ready for war” with neighbour South Korea after he blamed the South for broadcasting propaganda statements across the frontier.

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