Kim Jong-un uses New Year's message to claim US 'cannot declare war' on nuclear-armed North Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has used his New Year address to claim all of the USA is within range of his country's nuclear missiles.
Kim Jong-un says North Korea is a peaceful nuclear nation and that the weapons will be used "only if our security is threatened". North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test in September. The comments came after Retired Admiral Mike Mullen said he believed the US has never been closer to a nuclear war with North Korea.
"The US cannot declare war against us. The entire US territories are within our firing range
and the nuclear missile button is right there on my desk," he said in a speech broadcast on state TV.
"We have secured powerful deterrence against the nuclear threat from the US," he added.
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