This photo provided on Nov. 19, 2022, by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and his daughter at the site of a missile launch at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022.Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via Associated Press On Thursday, North Korea's defense minister made a veiled threat about a nuclear first strike. He said the US' latest actions could possibly fall under conditions Pyongyang set for a nuke launch. Kang Sun-nam was responding to the USS Kentucky, a nuclear-armed sub, docking in Busan. North Korea's defense minister warned on Thursday that recent US military actions could "fall under the conditions" set by Pyongyang to launch a preemptive nuclear strike.Kang Sun-nam made the threat in response to Washington stationing an Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine, the USS Kentucky, in Busan on Tuesday.