But Mr. Kim also reiterated his country’s achievements with its nuclear weapons program. It also tried to squeeze the North’s fuel supplies by demanding that member nations drastically reduce exports of refined oil to North Korea. In any talks with the United States, North Korea is likely to insist on being recognized as a nuclear weapons state, analysts said. It has also launched three intercontinental ballistic missiles, demonstrating rockets powerful enough to deliver warheads to all of the continental United States. But all three of its ICBM tests took place in the sea between North Korea and Japan.

Source: New York Times January 01, 2018 03:01 UTC