Alwaght- North Korea has threatened to send "more gift packages" to the United States, days after testing the biggest nuclear weapon it has ever detonated.
Han Tae-song, ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), North Korea's official name, to the United Nations in Geneva, addressed the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday after his country carried out its sixth nuclear test.
"I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the 3rd of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force," Han told the Geneva forum.
"The recent self-defense measures by my country, DPRK, are a gift package addressed to none other than the US," Han said.
"The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK," he added without elaborating.
Military measures being taken by North Korea were "an exercise of restraint and justified self-defense right" to counter "the ever-growing and decade-long US nuclear threat and hostile policy aimed at isolating my country".
"Pressure or sanctions will never work on my country," Han declared. "The DPRK will never under any circumstances put its nuclear deterrence on the negotiating table."
Amid rising tensions with North Korea, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would allow Japan and South Korea to buy more "highly sophisticated" US military equipment.
The North Koreans have massive military assets stockpiled on what is the world's most heavily-fortified border with South Korea.
The US has roughly 28,000 troops in South Korea, and there are hundreds of thousands more American citizens just in Seoul, the capital, with a metro area population of 25 million.
North Korea blames the US for escalating tensions in the region through its provocative military drills. Pyongyang insists that it is developing nuclear weapons to deal with growing threats posed by the US.
