{{The United States has called on North Korea not to take any further provocative actions after report of plans for more nuclear tests.}}<\/p>\n
Friday’s statement came after the North conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday, drawing global condemnation.<\/p>\n
Barack Obama, the US president, has pledged after this week’s nuclear test “to lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats” and diplomats at the UN Security Council have already started discussing potential new sanctions.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, North Korea’s leader has made his first public appearance since Tuesday’s controversial nuclear test.<\/p>\n
Kim Jong-un handed out awards in memory of his late father Kim Jong-il to mark what would have been his 71st birthday.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett, reporting from Seoul, said: “Kim Jong-il’s birthday has been celebrated in a number of ways in the days leading up to it.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday came the third nuclear test which was seen by many as timed to coincide with Kim’s birthday.<\/p>\n
“On Thursday there was a mass rally in Pyongyang in celebration of that achievement, and on Friday it was the first appearance of Kim Jong-un’s since the tests, where he was giving out awards to members of North Korea’s elites, scientists and technicians.”<\/p>\n
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