North Korea has announced that it will not give up on strengthening its nuclear deterrent.

North Korea has announced that it will not give up on strengthening its nuclear deterrent.

North Korea condemns the latest South Korea-US joint military exercise "Iron Mace", saying it is a "repetition of nuclear war". "This exercise, called by its warlike name 'Iron Mace,' is the most monstrous repetition of a nuclear war, which aims to use nuclear weapons against our country," Kim Jong-sik, deputy head of the First Department of the WPK Central Committee, said in a statement issued by KCNA.