North Korea to pursue more 'nuclear deterence' |
So Se Pyong, North Korea's agent to the United Nations in Geneva, fabricated the account on Friday as the US and South Korea captivated aggressive exercises, which he said were aimed at the "decapitation of the absolute administration of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]".
"If the United States continues, again we accept to accomplish the counter-measures also. So we accept to advance and we accept to accomplish added aegis - nuclear deterrence," So said in an account with Reuters account agency.
The ambassador's account came as North Korea accursed a new short-range missile into the sea on Friday and approved to jam GPS aeronautics signals in South Korea, according to Seoul officials.
The latest missile battlefront took abode just hours afterwards US, South Korean, and Japanese leaders agreed to plan calm to adverse North Korea's nuclear threat.
US President Barack Obama abutting South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday in vowing to access up burden on North Korea in acknowledgment to its contempo nuclear and missile tests.
The three leaders warned they could yield added accomplish to adverse threats from Pyongyang.
'Slap in Xi Jinping's face'
In January, North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear analysis and in February launched a all-embracing rocket, angering even its abutting accessory China, and bidding the UN Security Council to appoint added sanctions on the antisocial state.
In Washington DC on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping alleged for chat to boldness the "predicament" on the Korean peninsula.
In an account with Al Jazeera, Einar Tangen, a political diplomacy analyst, said North Korea is more defying its abutting ally.
Pyongyang's latest action, he said, "is a bang to the face of Xi Jinping, a amazing accident of face as he is affair with Obama about nuclear issues".
Meanwhile, So declared that North Korea is "going on our own way. [We are] not accepting chat and discussions on that", if asked whether Pyongyang acquainted burden from Beijing.
So aswell said "the de-nuclearisation of the peninsula has gone", if asked about the resumption of adjourned six-party talks on his country's nuclear programme.
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