N. Korea threat over sanctions
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TOYKO, Japan -- North Korea has warned Japan that it would treat economic sanctions against the nation as a &quot;declaration of war&quot; as a row brews over the remains of abductees.
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North Korea has warned that it will regard any economic sanctions imposed by Japan as a &quot;declaration of war&quot;. Pyongyang said it would hit back with an &quot;effective physical response&quot;.
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Japan pressed on with efforts on Thursday to secure a U.N. condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test threat after Washington, in its starkest warning so far, said it would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang.
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North Korea lashed out Tuesday at ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills and warned that it could take retaliatory action amid renewed concern that the communist nation may be preparing to test a nuclear bomb.
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North Korea says it could suspend operations at its nuclear reactor once a first aid shipment arrives.
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Japan threatened retaliation against North Korea such as cutting off economic ties unless the communist state returned Japanese people it has kidnapped or gave a "sincere response" on their fate.
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Tensions mounted over North Korea's threat to test its first atomic bomb, with shots ringing out Saturday along the border with South Korea and Japan warning of harsh sanctions if Pyongyang goes nuclear.
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Japan circulated a new draft Security Council resolution Friday that retains the threat of sanctions against North Korea, ignoring Chinese and Russian fears of inflaming tensions with the isolated communist nation.
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NORTH Korea has warned the imposition of economic sanctions by Japan would be treated as a declaration of war and that the Pyongyang regime would &quot;immediately react to it with powerful physical methods&quot;.
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North Korea pledges to boost its 'war deterrent', days after missing a deadline for declaring its nuclear activities.
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North Korea's state media warned Friday the communist nation would bolster its "war deterrent," accusing the United States of plotting a nuclear war, as the world awaited Pyongyang's explanation about its failure to meet a nuclear deadline.
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South Korea on Wednesday urged Japan to carefully consider possible negative effects on the North Korean nuclear talks before imposing economic sanctions on Pyongyang for its kidnapping of Japanese citizens.
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Economic sanctions against North Korea  are "one option," but care is needed in deciding whether to  take that step, Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura  said on Thursday, a day after Pyongyang warned Japan that  imposing sanctions would be tantamount to war.
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North Korea said on Friday it had given an account of its nuclear arms program as required in an international disarmament deal, while separately threatening to boost "war deterrent".
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TOKYO -- A pledge by North Korea yesterday to conduct a nuclear test to bolster its defenses against the United States dramatically raised tensions in the region and marked the communist government's first unambiguous public threat to demonstrate itself as a nuclear power.
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North Korea threatened on Saturday to double the size of its nuclear deterrent if the United States did not drop what Pyongyang sees as a confrontational policy aimed at unseating the communist leadership there.
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SEOUL/TOKYO  - North Korea threatened on Saturday  to double the size of its nuclear deterrent and the United  States rejected its conditions for a resumption of talks,  leaving the two nations in a dangerous stalemate.