Post by pavel on Jan 15, 2016 22:50:10 GMT -6
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said it could stop nuclear tests in exchange for the U.S. scrapping joint military drills with South Korea, while also calling for a peace treaty with the U.S. in an echo of demands that were rejected by Washington in the past.
The U.S. has previously called the North's linking the military drills with its nuclear tests an "an implicit threat" and demanded that Pyongyang first demonstrate its sincerity to nuclear disarmament.
An unnamed spokesman of the North's Foreign Ministry called the purported hydrogen bomb test on Jan. 6 a justifiable move to ensure its survival against external threats.
"In response to the U.S. continuously invading our sovereignty and making threatening provocations, we will acquire ourselves with all possible nuclear attack and nuclear retaliation abilities, but will not thoughtlessly use our nuclear weapons ," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted the spokesman as saying.
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The U.S. has previously called the North's linking the military drills with its nuclear tests an "an implicit threat" and demanded that Pyongyang first demonstrate its sincerity to nuclear disarmament.
An unnamed spokesman of the North's Foreign Ministry called the purported hydrogen bomb test on Jan. 6 a justifiable move to ensure its survival against external threats.
"In response to the U.S. continuously invading our sovereignty and making threatening provocations, we will acquire ourselves with all possible nuclear attack and nuclear retaliation abilities, but will not thoughtlessly use our nuclear weapons ," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted the spokesman as saying.
Read more: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NKOREA_NUCLEAR_ASOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-01-15-22-46-55