North Korea has the ability to fire a nuclear missile at “anytime”, the country’s ambassador to Britain Hyun Hak-bong has said. “We don’t say empty words. We mean what we mean. It is not the United States that has a monopoly on nuclear weapons strikes,” Xinhua news agency quoted Hyun as saying in a rare interview with Britain’s Sky News. Asked whether North Korea has the capability now to fire a nuclear missile, he replied: “Anytime, anytime, yes.”