Thursday, June 9 2005 08:35 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Washington: North Korea has a stockpile of nuclear bombs and is building more such weapons, the country's vice foreign minister Kim Gye Gwan has said in an interview with a US television network.

"I should say that we have enough nuclear bombs to defend against a US attack," the North Korean official told ABC News when asked yesterday (Jun 8, 2005) how many nuclear bombs it possessed.

Asked whether Pyongyang was building more nuclear bombs, Kim said, "Yes."