N Korea says US sub deployment meets threshold for nuclear weapons use
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- AFP
- Published Date: 03:27 | 20 July 2023
- Modified Date: 03:27 | 20 July 2023
North Korea said Thursday the current port visit of a US nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea "effectively meets" Pyongyang's threshold for using nuclear weapons, its defence minister said.
"The US deployment of nuclear strategic assets including a nuclear-armed submarine meets our guidelines to use nuclear weapons," Pyongyang's defence minister Kang Sun Nam said in a statement.
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