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British PM singles out N. Korea for UK to develop nukes

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British Prime Minister David Cameron says his country needs nuclear weapons to ward off nuke threat from what he describes as ‘regimes such as North Korea’.

The Prime Minister wrote in an article for The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday that the UK is faced with a growing nuclear threat since the end of the Cold War and that the country still requires the “ultimate weapon of defence”.

David Cameron has, for the first time, suggested that Britain may be in range of ballistic missiles fired by the “highly unpredictable and aggressive regime” in North Korea.

He warned that it would be “foolish” for the UK even to consider abandoning Trident nuke weapons system because the country faces a growing threat of nuclear attack.

Cameron’s warning comes as the country’s Liberal Democrats and parts of the Labour Party are opposed to the £20billion project to replace the Trident nuke weapons system and they say the so-called deterrent is no longer relevant to the geopolitical challenges facing Britain.

“We need our nuclear deterrent as much today as we did when a previous British government embarked on it over six decades ago. Of course, the world has changed dramatically. The Soviet Union no longer exists. But the nuclear threat has not gone away”, Cameron said.

“In terms of uncertainty and potential risk it has, if anything, increased”, he added.

David Cameron’s insistence on the need for Britain to upgrade its nuclear weapons’ capacity hugely contradicts the country’s attempts at the international arena to deprive other nations, such as Iran, from having nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

“Iran continues to defy the will of the international community in its attempts to develop its nuclear capabilities,” he claimed.

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