North Korea vows to boost deterrent against US

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SEOUL, Sept 7(AFP): North Korea vowed today to strengthen its military deterrent against the United States "in every way," three days after claiming success in an experimental nuclear weapons programme.
Rodong Sinmun, newspaper of the ruling communist party, was commenting after the US military said it wants to speed up production plans for an enormous "bunker buster" bomb, seen as a potential weapon against nuclear facilities in Iran and North Korea that are mostly buried underground.
"The US military strong-arm policy towards the DPRK (North Korea) is a vivid manifestation of its extreme hostility towards the DPRK and its socialism and Washington's sinister scenario for the second Korean war," the paper said.
No progress could be made on denuclearising the Korean peninsula while this policy persists, it said, vowing to "bolster up its war deterrent in every way."
On Friday Pyongyang announced that an experimental uranium enrichment programme was entering the completion phase, and it was also building more bombs from plutonium extracted from spent reactor fuel rods.