Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn (3rd from R) speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the central government complex in Seoul on April 11, 2017. "We will keep bolstering our self-defensive military might in various ways in order to cope with the ever-intensifying U.S. acts of aggression".
The North convenes a Supreme People's Assembly session on Tuesday, one of its twice-yearly sessions in which major appointments are announced and national policy goals are formally approved.
The global community is concerned that the North will soon press ahead with another nuclear test and a long-range missile launch.
North Korea has condemned the United States missile attack against a Syrian airfield, calling it a clear and unforgivable act of aggression against a sovereign state.
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Delegates from around the North have been arriving in Pyongyang ahead of the assembly session.
The comments were Pyongyang's first since US President Donald Trump ordered the strikes on an air base in the war-wracked country on Thursday in retaliation for an apparent chemical attack. McMaster said, when asked why the Navy strike group Carl Vinson, whose flagship is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of that name, will make its way toward the Korean peninsula from Singapore as a show of force.
North Korea has carried out several nuclear tests and experts predict more could be in the offing as it moves closer towards developing a nuclear warhead that could reach the US.
The cruise missile attack, which took place when Trump was dining with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Florida, was not only a warning for Syria but also for China to pressure North Korea to end its provocation, a White House source told The Washington Post on Saturday.
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