US Warns North Korea Against Nuke Test: Swift Action

Star & Stripes reports:

A nuclear test by North Korea will prompt a “swift and forceful response,” a senior U.S. diplomat said in Seoul on Tuesday, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

North Korea would face unified action by several countries should it detonate a nuclear device in violation of existing U.N. Security Council resolutions, Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state, told reporters, according to Yonhap.

Starting in 2006, the Security Council imposed a broad range of economic sanctions on the North for developing nuclear weapons and conducting ballistic missile tests. “The entire world will respond in a strong and clear manner,” Sherman said, according to the Yonhap report. “We are prepared.”

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