North Korea Issue Nuclear Weapons Threat

The North Korean regime has declared it's ready to use nuclear weapons against the United States 'at any time' should the US persist with its current stance towards the leadership of Kim Jong-Un.

The announcement comes just a day after Pyongyang said it was to undertake a series of satellite launches using rockets that would flout an international ban on ballistic missile technology.

Speaking through the state news agency KCNA, the director of the communist country's Atomic Energy Institute said: "The US anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK that forced it to have access to the nuclear weapons has remained utterly unchanged and instead it has become all the more undisguised and vicious with the adoption of means openly seeking the downfall of the latter's social system."

"If the US and other hostile forces persistently seek their reckless hostile policy towards the DPRK and behave mischievously, the DPRK is fully ready to cope with them with nuclear weapons any time."