Kim Jong-un: North Korea will continue to improve its nuclear weapons

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North Korea will continue to refine nuclear weapons to deter enemy forces, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said while speaking at the Korean Workers' Party congress. Things need to be done to actively and fully contain and control the military threat that forcibly exists on the Korean peninsula, improving nuclear technologies, reducing size and weight, and increasing the strategic power of nuclear weapons, developing nuclear weapons. strategies that could be used in modern warfare in various ways depending on the objective and purpose of the operation, the unofficial KCNA agency quotes the North Korean ruler. In particular, according to Kim Jong-un, the country aims to increase the range of its nuclear weapons to 15,000 kilometers . He said, another of the proposed objectives is to improve the capacity to carry out preventive and retaliatory nuclear attacks and increase the level of precision to precisely reach any strategic objective in the area of ​​15,000 kilometers. He also noted that Pyongyang has just completed the development of a new nuclear submarine, which, he stressed, is an example of modernization and offers a sure prospect for the Navy to significantly increase the level of its current capability to conduct submarine military operations. The eighth Congress of the Korean Workers Party, the first to be held since 2016 and the second under Kim Jong-un, kicked off on January 5. The North Korean leader speaks in congress daily with a report.