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| N Korea 'to boost nuclear programme' after UN sanctions | N Korea 'to boost nuclear programme' after UN sanctions |
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| North Korea says it will boost its military power and "nuclear deterrence" programme after the UN imposed new sanctions over a rocket launch. | North Korea says it will boost its military power and "nuclear deterrence" programme after the UN imposed new sanctions over a rocket launch. |
| North Korea also ruled out any further nuclear talks. | North Korea also ruled out any further nuclear talks. |
| The country would "take physical actions" to strengthen its military force, the state news agency KCNA said. | The country would "take physical actions" to strengthen its military force, the state news agency KCNA said. |
| The UN Security Council approved new sanctions over the December test launch of what it said was a long-range missile banned by UN resolutions. | The UN Security Council approved new sanctions over the December test launch of what it said was a long-range missile banned by UN resolutions. |
| The three-stage rocket put a satellite into space in what was Pyongyang's first successful test of such technology. | |
| The UN resolution will add new individuals and North Korea's space agency to lists of existing sanctions, diplomats said. | |
| Over the past decade, North Korea has been in talks with the US, South Korea, China, Russia and Japan, promising to end its nuclear programme in return for energy and economic aid. | |
| "Due to the US's worsening policy of hostility toward North Korea, the six-party talks were rendered null and the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula was put to an end," North Korea's foreign ministry said on Wednesday in a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency. | |
| "We will take measures to boost and strengthen our defensive military power including nuclear deterrence," the ministry added. | |
| The UN Security Council banned North Korea from missile tests after nuclear tests conducted in 2006 and 2009. |