Pyongyang [North Korea], March 27 (ANI): North Korea on Saturday warned US of its right to self-defence in response to President Joe Biden's recent condemnation of this week's missile tests by Pyongyang.

Ri Pyong-chol, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party, made the statement, a day after Biden said that North Korea's launch of two short-range ballistic missiles Thursday was in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, Yonhap News reported"We express our deep apprehension over the US chief executive faulting the regular testfire, the exercise of our state's right to self-defence, as the violation of UN 'resolutions' and openly revealing his deep-seated hostility toward the DPRK," vice-chairman said.