US warns North Korea to refrain from ‘hostile acts’

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta also cautioned Pyongyang, saying during a
visit to Brazil on Tuesday that even though the rocket launch was a failure,
it still amounted to a “provocation.”

“We strongly urge North Korea not to engage … in any dangerous
provocation that would provide instability,” Panetta told reporters in
Brasilia.

On Monday, Carney had condemned bellicose North Korean behaviour after
Pyongyang’s military threatened to turn parts of Seoul to “ashes.”

North Korea had warned of retaliation after the United States scrapped a deal
for food aid over the rocket launch earlier this month by Pyongyang, the
failure of which was an embarrassment for the regime of new leader Kim
Jong-un.

Obama visited the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas last month and
denounced the isolated and impoverished state as a nation which cannot make “anything
of any use” and “doesn’t work.”

Source: AFP

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