A North Korean state agency has threatened to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a UN Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test.
Pyongyang's Korea Asia‑Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North's external ties and propaganda, also called for the breakup of the Security Council, which it called "a tool of evil" made up of "money‑bribed" countries that move at the order of the United States.
Regional tensions have risen markedly since the reclusive North conducted its sixth, and by far its most powerful, nuclear test on September 3.
The 15‑member Security Council voted unanimously on a US‑drafted resolution and a new round of sanctions on Monday in response, banning North Korea's textile exports that are the second largest only to coal and mineral, and capping fuel supplies.
North Korea reacted to the latest action by the Security Council, which had the backing of veto‑holding China and Russia, by reiterating threats to destroy the United States, Japan and South Korea.
Source: Stuff.co
