North Korea to UN: Korean Peninsula is “on the brink of nuclear war”

North Korea warned the United Nations on Tuesday that the Korean Peninsula faces the risk of a nuclear war erupting, blaming what it described as hostility from the United States.

"The military and security situation on the Korean Peninsula and its environs is being pushed further to the brink of a nuclear war," North Korea's delegate to the United Nations, Kim Song, told the UN General Assembly.