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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shweta Sharma

Kim Jong Un using nuclear weapons as insurance policy to stay in power, Rubio says

Kim Jong Un has been using the development of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme as his “insurance policy” to stay in power, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, said.

There was a serious need to lower the risk of “an inadvertent war” between North and South Korea since the breakdown of Pyongyang’s talks with Washington, the Florida senator said at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s nomination hearing.

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