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North Korea warns of retaliation after US nuclear submarine docks in Busan

The USS Alexandria fast-attack submarine (SSN 757) is seen in this photo from 2009 [File: AP Photo]

North Korea has said its military forces are ready to take any action necessary after a US Navy fast-attack nuclear submarine docked in a port in the South Korean city of Busan, and accused the United States of posing a grave threat to its national security.

North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency on Tuesday quoted the country’s Ministry of Defence as saying in a statement that the presence of a US nuclear submarine on the Korean Peninsula was a “clear expression of the US invariable hysteria for confrontation”.

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