Expect ‘more gift packages’ – North Korea warns US

North Korea has warned the US to expect more gift packages as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate due to Korea's missile program. 

North Korea ambassador to the UN, Han Song, made the announcement during his address at the UN-sponsored conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday, two days after his country detonated its sixth nuclear test explosion.

I am proud of saying that just two days ago on the third of September, DPRK successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test for intercontinental ballistic rocket under its plan for building a strategic nuclear force, Han told the forum.

The recent self-defense measures by my country, DPRK, are a ‘gift package’ addressed to none other than the U.S.

The U.S. will receive more ‘gift packages’ from my country as long as its relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts to put pressure on the DPRK,” he added.

The diplomat who dismissed the international uproar over his country’s latest and biggest nuclear weapons test said that military measures being taken by North Korea were “an exercise of restraint and justified self-defence right.”

He added that they were intended to counter “the ever-growing and decade-long U.S. nuclear threat and hostile policy aimed at isolating my country’’.

Pressure or sanctions will never work on my country,” Han declared, adding, “DPRK will never under any circumstances put its nuclear deterrence on the negotiating table.

United States Defense Secretary, James Mattis, had on Sunday said North Korea can expect a “massive military response” for pushing the country to the edge.