CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has indefinitely blocked North Korea’s plans to reopen its embassy in the Australian capital because of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons testing.

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr’s spokesman Patrick Low said Thursday that the government told Pyongyang that the proposal was on hold while the United Nations Security Council considered its response to North Korea’s third nuclear test on Feb. 12.

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