SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's state-run radio reported for the first time Sunday that the communist country has nuclear weapons, but South Korean officials doubted the credibility of the report.
Pyongyang Radio reported in a Korean-language report that the country "has come to have nuclear and other strong military weapons due to nuclear threats by U.S. imperialists," according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, which monitors broadcasts from the North.
Some took the report as the North's first confirmation of possession of nuclear weapons. Until now, North Korea had claimed that it was "entitled to have nuclear weapons and more powerful weapons than that to protect its sovereignty from U.S. threats."
But on Monday, South Korean officials were skeptical that the report represented a change in North Korea's official position on nuclear weapons, which has been to neither confirm nor...