North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stressed his order of a quick expansion of his forces' nuclear capabilities, citing the annual U.S.-South Korea military exercises, according to the country's state media.

Kim said the "security environment" around North Korea is "getting more serious day by day" and "requires us to make a radical and swift change in the existing military theory and practice and rapid expansion of nuclearization," the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported, paraphrasing his remarks.

He accused the U.S. and South Korea of intensifying their exercises and demonstrating "their will to ignite a war".

The military exercises "have always been provocative and dangerous in their nature but the gravity is increasing from the characteristics that they are recently plotting m

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