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SEOUL - North Korea said on Saturday it has no choice but to continue efforts to build up capabilities for self-defense and accused the United States and South Korea of pushing the Korean Peninsula into war scenarios."The DPRK will further intensify its practical efforts to deter the military threat of the hostile forces and maintain the balance of forces in the region," an unnamed spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry said on state news agency KCNA.
In a separate statement, North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, condemned the UN Secretary-General's recent criticism of the nation's firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, and said weapons testing is for "self-defense."North Korea on Thursday flexed its military muscle with the test of a huge new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile dubbed Hwasong-19.
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