SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called Tuesday for the ‘rapid expansion’ of the country’s nuclear weapons capability, citing ongoing US-South Korea military exercises that he said could ‘ignite a war’.

‘The US-ROK intensified military nexus and the muscle-flexing are the most obvious manifestation of their will to ignite a war,’ Kim was quoted as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

‘The prevailing situation requires us to make a radical and swift change in the existing military theory and practice and rapid expansion of nuclearization,’ he said.

The comments were made as Kim visited a naval destroyer, Choe Hyon, on Monday and received a report about the warship’s weapons systems.

He expressed satisfaction that ‘the major tasks for making the navy high-tech and nuclear-armed’ were ‘progressing as planned’ ahead of an assessment target in October, KCNA said…”