N Korean leader sets 5-year plan and vows nuclear restraint

Pyongyang

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with nuclear arms, in a speech broadcast on Sunday, and set a five-year plan to boost the secretive state's moribund economy.

The North "will faithfully fulfil its obligation for non-proliferation and strive for global denuclearisation", Mr Kim said on Saturday at the rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party, although the speech only aired on Sunday on state television.