N. Korea warns U.S., S. Korea, Japan of 'nuclear catastrophe'
North KoreaNov 12, 2013
A senior North Korean official on Tuesday threatened the United States, South Korea and Japan with a "nuclear catastrophe," accusing them of demanding Pyongyang first take concrete steps to reopen stalled multilateral nuclear talks.Kim Tae-gil, a senior researcher at the North's foreign ministry-affiliated Disarmament and Peace Institute, made the outburst at an international conference in Tianjin, organized by the China Foundation for International Studies (CFIS) and the China International Ins