Seoul warns North Korea’s nuclear weapons will soon go ‘abroad’, posing ‘global danger’
Pyongyang is producing nuclear material for up to 20 weapons annually, President Lee Jae Myung says
The North carried out its first atomic test in 2006 in violation of UN resolutions and is now believed to possess dozens of nuclear warheads.
At the same time, the North is continuing to improve its long-range ballistic missile technology aimed at striking the US mainland, Lee added.
“At some point, North Korea will have secured the nuclear arsenal it believes it needs to sustain the regime, along with ICBM capabilities capable of threatening not only the United States but the wider world,” he said, referring to intercontinental ballistic missiles.
“And once there is excess, it will go abroad – beyond its borders. A global danger will then emerge,” he said.