Confrontation or dialogue? You choose, North Korea’s Kim tells US

The prospects of North Korea-US relations hinge “entirely on the attitude of the United States

”, he said on Wednesday. Pyongyang was prepared for both “peaceful coexistence or eternal confrontation” but the choice lay with Washington.

If Washington continued its confrontational approach, however, Pyongyang would respond “proportionally”, he said.

“Further expanding and strengthening the national nuclear force and fully exercising our status as a nuclear weapons state is the unwavering will of our party,” he said.