SEOUL — North Korea threatened Thursday to carry out a nuclear test as part of an ‘‘all-out action’’ against the United States, which it called the ‘‘main player’’ behind recently adopted international sanctions.
In a statement published by Pyongyang’s state news agency and attributed to the National Defense Commission, the supreme military policymaking body, the North said Washington’s policy toward it had entered ‘‘a new dangerous phase.’’ Although an underground nuclear test would not directly threaten the United States, it would raise stakes for the Obama administration, which has failed to curtail the North’s weapons program despite a series of sanctions and short-lived attempts at dialogue.
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And Hillary says "What does it matter now?"