North Korea has said it will continue its nuclear and ballistic missile programme in defiance of the United States and its allies.
The country's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, So Se Pyong, said a state of "semi-war" now existed in the divided peninsula.
He said military exercises involving South Korea and the US were aimed at "decapitation of the supreme leadership of the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)".
"If the United States continues, then we have to make the counter-measures also. So we have to develop, and we have to make more deterrence, nuclear deterrence," he said.
The diplomat added: "The de-nuclearisation of the peninsula has gone."
His comments came after North Korea fired a missile into the sea just hours after South Korea, Japan and the US warned Pyongyang to end its provocations.
The surface-to-air missile was fired from a region close to the North's eastern coast, according to a South Korean military official.
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