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SEOUL: North Koreas top military body warned on Thursday that the regime is poised to conduct a nuclear test in response to UN punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the US.
The National Defense Commission rejected Tuesdays UN Security Council resolution condemning North Koreas long-range rocket launch in December as a banned missile activity and expanding sanctions against the regime.
The commission reaffirmed in its declaration that the launch was a peaceful bid to send a satellite into space, but also said the countrys rocket launches have a military purpose: to strike and attack the US.
The commission pledged to keep launching satellites and rockets and to conduct a high-level nuclear test as part of defensive measures against the US.
We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-US struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the US, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, the commission said.
Settling accounts with the US needs to be done with force, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival, the commission said. The US State Department had no immediate response to Thursdays statement.
US envoy urges restraint
On Wednesday, after Pyongyangs foreign ministry issued its own angry response to the Security Council decision and said the North would bolster its nuclear deterrence, US envoy to North Korea Glyn Davies urged restraint. It is important that they heed the voice of the international community, Davies said Wednesday in South Korea. He was meeting with government officials on a trip that also will take him to China and Japan to discuss how to move forward on North Korea relations.
Davies said that if North Korea begins to take concrete steps to indicate their interest in returning to diplomacy, they may find in their negotiating partners willing partners in that process. North Korea carried out underground nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, both times just weeks after receiving UN sanctions for launching long-range rockets it claimed were peaceful bids to send satellites into space. At a military parade last April, North Korea showed off what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Experts say the North Koreans must conduct further tests of its atomic devices and make them smaller before they can be mounted as nuclear warheads onto long-range missiles. Though it insists its efforts to launch a satellite are peaceful, North Korea also claims the right to build nuclear weapons as a defence against the US, which stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea.
The adversaries fought in the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953 and left the KoreanPeninsula divided by the worlds most heavily fortified demilitarised zone. North Korea has enough weaponised plutonium for about four to eight bombs, according to nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, who visited North Koreas nuclear complex in 2010.
In 2009, Pyongyang also declared that it would begin enriching uranium, which would give North Korea a second way to make atomic weapons.
North Korea warns nuke test may be imminent | World | DAWN.COM
The National Defense Commission rejected Tuesdays UN Security Council resolution condemning North Koreas long-range rocket launch in December as a banned missile activity and expanding sanctions against the regime.
The commission reaffirmed in its declaration that the launch was a peaceful bid to send a satellite into space, but also said the countrys rocket launches have a military purpose: to strike and attack the US.
The commission pledged to keep launching satellites and rockets and to conduct a high-level nuclear test as part of defensive measures against the US.
We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-US struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the US, the sworn enemy of the Korean people, the commission said.
Settling accounts with the US needs to be done with force, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival, the commission said. The US State Department had no immediate response to Thursdays statement.
US envoy urges restraint
On Wednesday, after Pyongyangs foreign ministry issued its own angry response to the Security Council decision and said the North would bolster its nuclear deterrence, US envoy to North Korea Glyn Davies urged restraint. It is important that they heed the voice of the international community, Davies said Wednesday in South Korea. He was meeting with government officials on a trip that also will take him to China and Japan to discuss how to move forward on North Korea relations.
Davies said that if North Korea begins to take concrete steps to indicate their interest in returning to diplomacy, they may find in their negotiating partners willing partners in that process. North Korea carried out underground nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, both times just weeks after receiving UN sanctions for launching long-range rockets it claimed were peaceful bids to send satellites into space. At a military parade last April, North Korea showed off what appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Experts say the North Koreans must conduct further tests of its atomic devices and make them smaller before they can be mounted as nuclear warheads onto long-range missiles. Though it insists its efforts to launch a satellite are peaceful, North Korea also claims the right to build nuclear weapons as a defence against the US, which stations more than 28,000 troops in South Korea.
The adversaries fought in the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953 and left the KoreanPeninsula divided by the worlds most heavily fortified demilitarised zone. North Korea has enough weaponised plutonium for about four to eight bombs, according to nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, who visited North Koreas nuclear complex in 2010.
In 2009, Pyongyang also declared that it would begin enriching uranium, which would give North Korea a second way to make atomic weapons.
North Korea warns nuke test may be imminent | World | DAWN.COM
