BEIJING: North Korea escalated a nuclear crisis yesterday with a threat to end a moratorium on missile testing on the day it became the world's first country to withdraw from a treaty preventing the spread of atomic weapons.
The North’s ambassador to Beijing accused Washington of failing to respond positively to the 1999 moratorium, meant as a gesture toward opening talks on normalising relations.
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