North Korea vows to increase nuclear deterrent

North Korea’s deputy leader said today that his communist nation will increase its nuclear deterrent to defend itself against alleged US threats of invasion.

“We will continue increasing our self-defensive nuclear deterrent against the enemies’ policy to isolate and stifle the republic,” Kim Yong Nam, head of the North’s legislature, told a national meeting commemorating tomorrow’s anniversary of the birth of its founding president, Kim Il Sung.