The UK Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that recent North Korea’s ballistic missile launches violated UN Security Council resolutions and called on Pyongyang to return to dialogue on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
North Korea convened a key party meeting to decide its diplomatic and defence strategy "to cope with the changed international situation", with leader Kim Jong Un attending, state media KCNA said on Saturday.
A dangerous game is being played between the US and North Korea, putting the world at an elevated risk of nuclear conflict, a military expert has warned.
President-elect Obama, during the campaign you stressed the need for "sustained, direct, and aggressive diplomacy" with North Korea in order to achieve "the complete and verifiable elimination of allof North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, as well as its pastproliferation activities, including with Syria." When North Koreaprovided data on its nuclear weapons programs, you stated that.
While the US has long demanded North Korea give up its nuclear weapons, the regime's biggest display of warheads let the world know that Kim Jong Un has no intention of abandoning his atomic arsenal.