North Korea condemns U.N., threatens a 'new form' of nuclear test
Source: Reuters
North Korea threatened on Sunday to conduct what it called "a new form of nuclear test", raising the level of rhetoric after members of the United Nations Security Council condemned the North's recent ballistic missile launch.
"It is absolutely intolerable that the U.N. Security Council, turning a blind eye to the U.S. madcap nuclear war exercises, 'denounced' the Korean People's Army (KPA)'s self-defensive rocket launching drills and called them a 'violation of resolutions' and a 'threat to international peace and security' and is set to take an 'appropriate step'," the North's foreign ministry said in a statement on the official KCNA news agency.
The statement said KPA drills to counter the U.S. will involve "more diversified nuclear deterrence" that will be used for hitting medium- and long-range targets "with a variety of striking power".
"We would not rule out a new form of nuclear test for bolstering up our nuclear deterrence," the North's statement said, without giving any indication of what that might entail.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/30/us-korea-north-nuclear-idUSBREA2T04020140330
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(13,485 posts)what I'm most concerned about is they would trigger a nuke by accident and blow up their own facilities throwing around nuclear material in the area and ocean... fallout in turn would cause radiation to flow around the earth and possibly cause other countries to go ape shit maybe causing their own nuclear misjudgment. Or the same scenario except they try to put one on a missile and it goes off in flight, in the ocean, breaks up, goes the wrong direction... whatever.