November 5, 2017

SEOUL -- North Korea ruled out talks and threatened to increase its nuclear arsenal in a fresh warning to Mr Donald Trump's administration yesterday, as the US President set off on a tour of Asia.

State-run KCNA news agency said in a commentary that the United States should be disabused of the "absurd idea" that Pyongyang would succumb to international sanctions and give up its nuclear weapons, warning that it is in "the final stage for completing nuclear deterrence".

"It had better stop daydreaming of denuclearisation talks with us," said the commentary. "Our self-defensive nuclear treasure sword will be sharpened evermore unless the US hostile policy towards the DPRK is abolished once and for all," the news agency said, referring to the North's official name, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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