Tuesday, February 5, 2013
North Korea threatens 'stronger' measures than nuclear test
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) presides over a consultative meeting with officials about state security and foreign affairs.
North Korea stepped up its bellicose rhetoric threatening to go beyond carrying out a promised third nuclear test in response to what it believes are "hostile" sanctions imposed after a December rocket launch. It did not spell out the actions it would take.
"The DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) has drawn a final conclusion that it will have to take a measure stronger than a nuclear test to cope with the hostile forces nuclear war moves that have become ever more undisguised," the North's KCNA state news agency said.
The North successfully launched a long-range rocket in December in violation of UN resolutions that banned it from developing missile or nuclear technology after nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
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