North Korea’s Kim promises more nuclear weapons as Congress closes with military parade

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would focus on expanding his country’s nuclear arsenal and that prospects for improving relations with the US rested entirely on Washington’s attitude, state media KCNA reported on Thursday. North Korea’s week-long Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party wrapped up with a military parade in the capital Pyongyang on Wednesday, KCNA reported. The Asian nation’s “international status has risen extraordinarily” as it laid out major policy goals for the next five years, Kim said.

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