North Korea rejects US call for arms inspections

North Korea today rejected US calls for inspections of its suspected weapons of mass destruction and threatened to take unspecified…

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.