Are North Korea’s nuclear weapons a real threat to the West?

Kim Jong Un warns secretive state is accelerating its atomic missile program

A news broadcast of the military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea
A news broadcast of the military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea
(Image credit: Woohae Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Kim Jong Un has issued a threat that he is planning to speed up development of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and have missiles ready to fire without warning.

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