Seoul, June 23 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has called for efforts to further increase his country’s nuclear arsenal “with a goal of overtaking the world,” Pyongyang’s state media reported Tuesday.According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) convened the second plenary meeting of its ninth central committee for three days from Saturday, presided over by leader Kim, to assess how the country’s policies have fared in the first half of the y…
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Seoul, June 11 (IANS) South Korea and the United States reaffirmed Thursday their shared goal of denuclearising North Korea at a key bilateral meeting on US extended deterrence against North Korean threats.The sixth meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) took place in Seoul earlier in the day, as Pyongyang has intensified efforts to secure its status as a nuclear-armed state and vowed never to abandon its nuclear weapons program, Yonhap news agency reported.”The two sides agreed to cont…