Tougher sanctions against North Korea
2013-01-24 21:41
United Nations - The UN said on Thursday that the
international community must put "pressure" on North Korea to stop it
carrying out a nuclear weapons test.
"The international community has to bring pressure
to bear on the North Koreans," a spokesperson for UN leader Ban Ki-moon
told reporters.
North Korea "has to realise that only dialogue will
help defuse tension on the Korean peninsula and that any threat of
nuclearisation runs counter to Security Council resolutions," said UN
deputy spokesperson Eduardo del Buey.
North Korea said earlier it planned to carry out a third
nuclear test aimed at its "arch-enemy" the US in response to
tightened UN sanctions.
The UN Security Council this week toughened sanctions
against the secretive North for having staged a banned rocket launch in
December.
The Security Council resolution threatened
"significant action" if the North stages a nuclear test.
The council imposed wide-ranging sanctions after North
Korea's set off nuclear bombs in an underground bunker in 2006 and 2009.
