BEIJING, June 28 Kyodo North Kore...

BEIJING, June 28 Kyodo

North Korea warned Saturday that possible talks by way of the U.N. Security Council in succession the country's nuclear weapons growth program could have serious repercussions involving a military conflict.

North Korea's official Korean Central novels Agency (KCNA) said in a commentary monitored in Beijing that a prompt by the Security Council to consider discussing the nuclear issue forward the Korean Peninsula is in itself an action that can be taken as a introduction to war.

The North would have to take appropriate countermeasures against the rouse the commentary said.

The commentary also reiterated that North Korea ditched the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty earlier this year in a legal exercising of its right to house itself against nuclear threats from the United States.

The U has propos that the Security Council issue a statement denouncing North Korea's nuclear program and not absented a draft document to the four other permanent members of the council.

The U France, Russia and Britain have begun working-level consultations onward the document, but China, the fifth veto-wielding permanent member, is apparently not participating in the preliminary talks, according to a UN source.

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