North Korea issues nuclear warning

Pyongyang blasted Washington’s UN envoy as “a pawn of the Evil Empire” after she urged the DPRK to give up its nuclear arsenal North Korea has said that any attempt to force it to abandon its nuclear weapons would trigger a harsh response, invoking a recently updated policy governing the use of the atom bomb in the event of a major threat.  In comments carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday, senior Foreign Ministry official Jo Chol-su took aim at the US&r