N. Korea's Kim reaffirms 'invariable' stance on ensuring security through nuclear force

▲ This file photo, published by the Korean Central News Agency on Jan. 29, 2025, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (2nd from L, top) inspecting a nuclear material plant. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)

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N. Korea's Kim reaffirms 'invariable' stance on ensuring security through nuclear force

SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reaffirmed his country's "invariable" stance on ensuring security through its nuclear forces, highlighting steady preparations for its "nuclear counteraction" as an "essential top-priority task," state media reported Saturday.

He made the remarks on Friday, when he met with scientists and technicians in the nuclear field, and presided over a key consultative meeting on the production of nuclear materials and weapons, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

The North's leader stressed the country places a top priority on steadily bolstering the country's nuclear capabilities, calling it an "unchangeable duty."

"The powerful deterrent, namely, the logic of peacekeeping and security by force with nuclear forces as its backbone is the invariable stand of the DPRK," Kim was quoted as saying. DPRK is short for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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