SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea slammed United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday over his recent description of Pyongyang’s nuclear programmes as a ‘clear and present danger’.

Military tensions on the Korean peninsula rose sharply last year as the North conducted sanctions-busting weapons tests nearly every month, including firing its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also recently called for an ‘exponential’ increase in Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal and new ICBMs to counter what it termed US and South Korean hostility…”