North Korea says it is weaponizing plutonium

After a new round of UNSC sanctions against its nuclear program, North Korea says it will continue to weaponize its spent plutonium rods and to take "resolute military actions" against efforts to isolate it.

In a statement on Saturday, an unnamed spokesman for Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said the country can no longer "even think about giving up its nuclear weapons".

It added that Pyongyang had weaponized more than one third of its spent plutonium rods and would begin a new program to enrich uranium.

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