North Korea has the ability to fire a nuclear weapon and would use a nuclear missile in retaliation if it is attacked, the country's ambassador to Britain told Sky News on Friday.
"It is not the United States that has a monopoly on nuclear weapons strikes," Ambassador Hyun Hak Bong told Sky at the isolated Asian country's London Embassy.
Asked if that meant North Korea, which quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1993, had the capability to fire a nuclear missile now, he replied: "Any time, any time, yes."