North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he called the “most hostile” state, state media said Tuesday (March 24, 2026). In a speech on Monday (March 23, 2026) to Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp parliament, Mr.
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