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North Korea nuclear crisis
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North Korea will never bow to 'unreasonable' nuclear resolutions

North Korea insisted on Tuesday it would never give in to “unreasonable” international resolutions against its nuclear arms programme, insisting the prospects of denuclearising the Korean peninsula were deteriorating in the face of US hostility.

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A poster of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) concerning nuclear testing by North Korea. Photo: AFP

North Korea insisted on Tuesday it would never give in to “unreasonable” international resolutions against its nuclear arms programme, insisting the prospects of denuclearising the Korean peninsula were deteriorating in the face of US hostility.

“The US and their followers are sadly mistaken if they miscalculate the DPRK (North Korea) would accept the entirely unreasonable resolutions against it,” Jon Yong Ryong, the first secretary of North Korea’s mission in Geneva, told the UN Disarmament Forum.

“The DPRK will never be bound to any resolutions,” he said.

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His comments came after North Korea on Tuesday staged its most powerful nuclear test yet, claiming a breakthrough with a “miniaturised” device in a striking act of defiance which sparked an international outpouring of condemnation.

EU truly wants peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, it should urge the US first to terminate its hostile policy towards the DPRK on an impartial basis

Jon hailed the test, which he said was “conducted in a safe and perfect way,” and which he insisted was “part of practical measures as counter-action to defend the country’s security and sovereignty in the face of the ferocious hostile act of the US”.

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