UPI:


North Korea continues to develop weapons of mass destruction and the regime is believed to have increased its nuclear arsenal, according to a Swedish think tank.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in an annual report published Monday that Pyongyang is one of nine nuclear-armed states in the world — a group that includes the United States Russia, Pakistan and Israel.

North Korea has stayed away from nuclear weapons tests since 2017 and did not test-launch long-range ballistic missiles in 2020, the report said.

But the regime “continued production of fissile material and development of short and long-range ballistic missiles” away from the public eye, the institute said…



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