North Korea to Further Boost Its Nuclear Force

by YuGee / Sep 08, 2016 06:22 AM EDT

This file photo taken in July 2013 shows a Scud-type missile featured in a military parade at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. Following North Korea's launch of three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on July 19, 2016, the U.S. Strategic

On Wednesday, North Korea said it rejects the statement of the UN Security Council which condemns the country's newest missile launches. It also claims that the statement is a violation of the country's sovereignty and promises to continue empowering its nuclear weapons and arsenal.

In an article from Yonhap News Agency, a spokesperson of the North Korea's Foreign Ministry made the statement to the state-run Korean Central News agency following the Security Council's press statement denouncing the country's launches of three medium-range Rodong ballistic missiles on Monday.

The spokesperson said, "The United States and its followers cooked up a press release again in which they found fault with the DPRK's measure for bolstering up nuclear deterrence for self-defense. The DPRK categorically rejects this as an intolerable act of encroaching upon its dignity, right to existence, sovereignty, and right to self-defense."

The spokesperson also mentioned that it is "utterly illogical" for the UN Security Council to take issue with North Korea's "legitimate measure for self-defense" but "not uttering a word about the brigandish act of the United States which is conducting nuclear war exercises for aggression" after presenting big nuclear war means which include strategic assets into the Korean peninsula.

Pertaining to the nation's doctrine of self-reliance, the spokesperson added, "THE DPRK will continue to expand the signal successes of bolstering up the nuclear force in a phased way in this historic year when it started with the solemn blast of the first H-bomb test of Juche Korea."

North Korea fired three medium-ranged Rodong missiles off its East Coast. According to South Korea's military, the missiles flew approximately 1,000 kilometers and landed in waters controlled by Japan's air defense identification zone.

That specific missiles launch was the latest in many missile launches of all ranges that the communist country has been doing since its fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch in February.

Such missile launches are a violation of UN Security council rules that prohibit North Korea from any activity that uses ballistic missile technology over worries that it can be used to create long-range missiles that are capable of carrying nuclear weapons.