U.S. State Department: 'We Take North Korean Threats To Use Nuclear Weapons Seriously'

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. REUTERS/KCNA

Reuters: U.S. takes North Korea nuclear threats seriously: State Department

The U.S. State Department said on Monday the United States took North Korean threats to use nuclear weapons seriously and urged Pyongyang to halt its provocations, including testing nuclear devices and long-range rockets.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country last week to be prepared to use nuclear weapons at any time and to be ready to carry out a pre-emptive attack, state media reported.

His comments came as U.S. and South Korean forces conducted annual military exercises amid heightened tensions on the peninsula following the North's recent nuclear and missile tests, which prompted the United Nations to impose new sanctions on Pyongyang.

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WNU Editor: Unfortunately .... it is Chinese who need to take North Korean threats to use nuclear weapons seriously, but at the moment no one is sure if China will follow the rigid UN sanctions that everyone agreed upon was necessary (including from the Chinese) only last week.