UK Telegraph with the story (its been about for a few hours already though, so not really fresh)

North Korea's deputy UN ambassador Kim In-ryong

  • Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment."
  • North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to "such an extreme and direct nuclear threat" from the United States since the 1970s
  • North Korea has the right to possess nuclear weapons in self-defence
  • He pointed to large-scale military exercises every year using "nuclear assets" and said what is more dangerous is what he called a U.S. plan to stage a "secret operation aimed at the removal of our supreme leadership."

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