North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a recent ​Central Committee meeting of the ruling Workers' Party has defended the country's nuclear status, calling it “the only way to cope with unpredictable global security.”

According to the KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday, Kim stated that in the midst of a complicated global security environment, it is important to exercise and maintain nuclear capabilities.

"To steadily expand and strengthen the nuclear forces ... and to thoroughly ​exercise the position of a nuclear weapons state is the most correct and unique way to actively and confidently cope........

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