North Korea's Kim Jong-un: prosperity by nuclear weapons

That Kim said in a published Tuesday speech to the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Nuclear installations

On the same day it was announced that North Korea nuclear installations in operation again brings, including the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, which the country joined in 2007.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sees nuclear weapons as a guarantee for peace. “Our nuclear power is a reliable deterrent.”

The equipment will be used for energy generation and for military purposes.

The reactor at Yongbyon was closed in mid-2007 in the framework of an international agreement, except where North Korea also South Korea, Japan, Russia, China and the United States were involved. North Korea defunct its nuclear program in exchange for economic aid and more fuel.

Economic Development

The North Korean leader stressed in his speech that nuclear weapons promote economic development, but accuses the United States of North Korea at the same time wanting to indulge in an arms race, making the economic development of the Stalinist-controlled land is inhibited.

“Based on a strong nuclear force can peace and prosperity exist and thus the happiness of the people,” Kim argued.

In recent weeks used North Korea many war rhetoric against South Korea. The North conducted a nuclear test in February.

North Korea's Kim Jong-un: prosperity by nuclear weapons