North Korea tells UN it has no choice but to accelerate building its self-defence

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Open this photo in gallery: North Korea's UN Ambassador Song Kim addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on Sept. 26.Richard Drew/The Associated Press North Korea’s United Nations envoy accused the United States and South Korea on Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula closer to the brink of nuclear war, telling the UN General Assembly that as a result his country had no choice but to further accelerate a build-up of its self-defence capabilities. “The year 2023 has been recorded as an extremely dangerous year,” Ambassador Kim Song told the last day of the annual UN gathering...