In a statement carried by state media, North Korea’s Defence Ministry said its enemies’ escalating nuclear threats urgently require North Korea to further improve its nuclear deterrent readiness and add unspecified “important elements to the composition of the deterrent”. It said the US and South Korea will “pay an unimaginably harsh price”.

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