By Sam Webb Threats: North Korea has pledged to hold more rocket and nuclear tests after UN-imposed sanctions. Picture shows a North Korean rocket launch from December North Korea today said it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its 'sworn enemy'. In a statement carried by state media, the top military authority in Pyongyang threatened to wage a 'full-fledged confrontation' against the US for what it calls continued hostility. It comes a day after the UN Security Council agreed to a U.S.-backed resolution to censure and sanction North Korea for a rocket launch in December that breached UN rules.
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Military says test and rocket launches aimed at the US, its 'sworn enemy'
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U.S. and China envoys urge Pyongyang not to carry out third nuclear test
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Test could come as early as February, say analysts
@placeholder, the one major diplomatic ally of the isolated and impoverished North, agreed to the U.S.-backed resolution and it also supported resolutions in 2006 and 2009 after Pyongyang's two earlier nuclear tests.