Nuclear threat absent from latest Kim Jong Un speech

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said he is ready for war if provoked by "invasive" outsiders, but avoided past threats centring on the country's nuclear weapons and long-range missile ambitions.

Kim's New Year comments, broadcast by North Korea's state TV, largely stuck to the well-worn propaganda meant to glorify him and his leadership for the residents of one of the world's poorest, most closed countries.