DHAKA: Kim Jong-un has said North Korea will soon conduct tests of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles.

He said the tests would ‘enhance the reliance’ of the North’s nuclear attack capability, state media reported, says the BBC.

The North has issued a series of increasingly bellicose threats in the wake of sanctions imposed after nuclear and missile tests earlier this year.

But though it is known to have nuclear weapons, many analysts doubt North Korea has the ability to deliver them.

Last week, Kim claimed his scientists had developed nuclear warheads small enough to fit on ballistic missiles.

The claims were accompanied by pictures of the leader standing alongside what state media said was a miniaturized nuclear warhead.

South Korea’s defense ministry was skeptical about the claim, saying it thought the North had ‘not yet secured miniaturized nuclear warheads’ and that it believes the North ‘hasn’t acquired re-entry technology’.

On Tuesday, President Park Geun-hye warned that if the North continues ‘its provocations and confrontation with the international community and does not walk the path of change, it will walk the path of self-destruction’.

BDST: 1418 HRS, MAR 15, 2016
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