North Korea today rejected US calls for inspections of its suspected weapons of mass destruction and threatened to take unspecified "necessary countermeasures".
"The US is unreasonably demanding the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] receive an 'inspection' just as a thief turns on the master with a club," said the North Korean Foreign Ministry in a statement carried on North's state-run
Korea Central News Agency
.
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"Under this situation the DPRK cannot sit idle but is left with no option but to take necessary counter-measures," it said.