FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes a closing remark at 5th Conference of Cell Chairpersons of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) on December 23 in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang December 24, 2017. KCNA/via REUTERS
January 1, 2018
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Monday that the United States will never be able to start a war against North Korea now that his country has developed the capability to hit all of the U.S. mainland with its nuclear weapons.
“The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat,” Kim said during a televised New Year’s Day speech.
(Reporting by Soyoung Kim and Josh Smith in SEOUL; Editing by Kim Coghill)
