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Nuclear weapons test, a gift to US, North Korea says

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Nuclear weapons test, a gift to US, North Korea says

Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un is not in anyway backing down in its war of words with the US after Pyongyang’s UN ambassador says its biggest nuclear weapons test yet was a ‘gift’ addressed to the United States.

Speaking at the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday after his country carried out its sixth nuclear test, Han Tae-song, ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations in Geneva said the US should expect “more gift packages”.

“I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force,” Han told the Geneva forum.

“The recent self-defence measures by my country, DPRK, are a gift package addressed to none other than the US,” Han said.

“The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK,” he added without elaborating.

Read also: S’Korea targets bigger warheads, as US mulls fresh sanctions for N’Korea

Leaders around the world condemned North Korea’s last nuclear test with the US now mulling fresh sanctions against North Korea after its ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley called on the body’s Security Council to impose tougher measures against Pyongyang.

Speaking at an emergency session in New York, Haley said Washington will circulate a new sanctions resolution this week, with a view of voting on it next Monday.

However, Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned that pilling more sanctions on North Korea will be counterproductive and could trigger “a global catastrophe”.

Speaking moments after a BRICS summit in Xiamen, China, Putin also criticised US diplomacy in the crisis and renewed his call for talks, saying North Korea would not halt its missile testing programme until it felt secure.

 

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