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‘A new path’: North Korea threatens scrapping promise to halt nuclear tests

By Joel Gehrke
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‘A new path’: North Korea threatens scrapping promise to halt nuclear tests

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will resume nuclear weapon and ballistic missile tests if the United States refuses to ease sanctions, an envoy announced amid a diplomatic shake-up in Pyongyang.

“We found no reason to be unilaterally bound any longer by the commitment that the other party fails to honor,” Ju Yong Chol, an official at North Korea’s mission to the United Nations, said today at a conference in Geneva.

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