North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has called for his country to expand production of “weapon-grade nuclear materials” and build more powerful weapons, state media reported. Kim’s latest threat, a doubling-down on an earlier promise to ramp up nuke production “exponentially”, came ahead of a US Navy carrier strike group’s scheduled arrival in South Korea on Tuesday.

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