**FILE** North Korean leader Kim Jong-un salutes during a mass military parade ... more >North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” at a United Nations conference on disarmament on Tuesday.
North Korean diplomat Jon Yong Ryong claimed at the meeting that the nation had just taken a “resolute step for self-defense” against its “foreign aggressor,” Reuters reported. “If the U.S. takes a hostile approach toward the DPRK to the last, rendering the situation complicated, [North Korea] will be left with no option but to take the second and third stronger steps in succession,” he said, according to Reuters.
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South Korea, Britain and the United States condemned the statements.
British ambassador Joanne Adamson called North Korea’s language “completely inappropriate,” Reuters said. Ambassador Susan Rice, meanwhile, said: “It cannot be allowed that we have expressions which refer to the possible destruction of U.N. member states.”
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