{{North Korea has vowed to strengthen its nuclear weapons programme, after the UN Security Council voted to expand existing sanctions against Pyongyang.}}<\/p>\n
North Korea said on Wednesday it would hold no more talks on the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and would boost its military and nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\n
“We will take measures to boost and strengthen our defencive military power including nuclear deterrence,” its foreign
\nministry said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA.<\/p>\n
Hours earlier, the Security Council voted unanimously to condemn North Korea’s December rocket launch.<\/p>\n
The launch is considered by the West as part of a covert programme to develop ballistic missiles that can carry warheads.<\/p>\n
The council reiterated its previous demand that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons programme in a “complete, verifiable and irreversible manner” and cease launches.<\/p>\n
The secretive state, already under tough UN sanctions for nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, said the launch was intended to put a satellite in space.<\/p>\n
Aljazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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