North Korea has announced plans to carry out a third nuclear test as part of "upcoming all-out action" against America.

The new North Korean leader, just like the old North Korean leader.  Like father, like son?  We know their tests haven't exactly been huge successes in the past, but there is always a first time.

Defying a resolution issued by the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that condemned Pyongyang for test-firing a missile in December and tightened existing sanctions on the regime, North Korea's National Defence Commission said the new nuclear test would be part of its action against the "sworn enemy of the Korean people".

North Korea also vowed to push ahead with launches of more long-range rockets.

Describing the UN Security Council as "a marionette of the US," North Korean state media claimed the resolutions are "products of its blind pursuance of the hostile policy of the US.

"The UNSC should apologise for its crime of seriously encroaching upon the independence of a sovereign state ... and repeal all the unreasonable 'resolutions' at once," KCNA reported.

Pyongyang also declared that no further talks on removing nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula are now possible and that a "nuclear test of a higher level" would be carried out.

(more at the Telegraph, hat tip Drudge)

 

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[R.J. Godlewski]

Doesn't the new "Dear Leader" look like someone whose YouTube video just got another thumbs down?