North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said a US, South Korea agreement this week about the need to shore up South Korean security will worsen the situation, according to state media KCNA on Saturday.
North Korea is convinced it must further perfect a "nuclear war deterrent" as a result, Kim said. The statement did not elaborate.
Kim's statement is North Korea's first comment on the meeting, and suggests its cycle of military shows of force and weapons development will continue.
US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met this week, with the United States pledging to give South Korea more insight into its nuclear planning over any conflict with North Korea amid anxiety over Pyongyang's growing arsenal of missiles and bombs.
A US Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) will also visit South Korea for the first time since the 1980s, to help demonstrate Washington's resolve to protect the country from a North Korean attack.
The Utah trade school student jailed on suspicion of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk faces formal charges next week, according to the governor, from an act of violence widely seen as a foreboding inflection point in US politics.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace on Saturday in Manipur state, the scene of two years of deadly ethnic violence, as he unveiled a package of development projects there worth nearly $1 billion.
European Union countries have shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats said on Friday.
Nepal's President Ramchandra Paudel dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections on March 5, his office said late on Friday, following a week of deadly violence that culminated in the appointment of the country's first woman Prime Minister in the interim.
Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, has hailed UAE's relations with Iran, calling the country "not just friends" but "companions in a long, shared journey across history" during a special community event.
A delegation from the UAE Space Agency, led by Dr Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of Sports and Chairman of the UAE Space Agency, has visited Japan, as part of the UAE’s efforts to strengthen international cooperation in space exploration, scientific research and advanced space industries.