Don't join any US action and you're safe, North Korea warns states

US Army soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division's the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team move during a joint military exercise between the US and South Korea at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in Pocheon, South Korea in September 2015. File picture: Ahn Young-joon/AP

US Army soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division's the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team move during a joint military exercise between the US and South Korea at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in Pocheon, South Korea in September 2015. File picture: Ahn Young-joon/AP

Published Oct 16, 2017

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United Nations - North Korea warned

countries at the United Nations on Monday in a statement: don't

join the United States in military action against the Asian

state and you will be safe from retaliation.

The caution was contained in a copy of North Korean Deputy

UN Ambassador Kim In Ryong's prepared remarks for a discussion

on nuclear weapons by a UN General Assembly committee.

However, Kim did not read that section out loud.

"As long as one does not take part in the US military

actions against the DPRK (North Korea), we have no intention to

use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against any other

country," according to Kim's prepared remarks.

"The entire US mainland is within our firing range and if

the US dares to invade our sacred territory even an inch it

will not escape our severe punishment in any part of the globe,"

the statement read.

Tensions have soared between the United States and North

Korea following a series of weapons tests by Pyongyang and a

string of increasingly bellicose exchanges between US

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

The UN Security Council has unanimously ratcheted up

sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile

programs since 2006.

North Korean Deputy UN Ambassador Kim did tell the UN General Assembly committee on Monday: "Unless the hostile policy

and the nuclear threat of the US is thoroughly eradicated, we

will never put our nuclear weapons and ballistic rockets on the

negotiation table under any circumstance." 

Reuters

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