North Korea calls UN Security Council ‘a tool of evil’ after sanctions
Seoul/Japan — A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the US to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a UN Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test. Pyongyang’s Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North’s external ties and propaganda, also called for the break-up of the Security Council, which it called "a tool of evil" made up of "money-bribed" countries that move at the order of the US. "The four islands of the archipelago should be sunk into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us," the committee said in a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency. Juche is the North’s ruling ideology that mixes Marxism and an extreme form of go-it-alone nationalism preached by state founder Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of the current leader, Kim Jong-un. Regional tensions have risen markedly since the North conducted its sixth, and m...
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