<p>North Korea on Sunday vowed tough action against the United States, accusing it of plotting to blow up statues of its founding leader in a bid to stir turmoil in the isolated communist state.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The warning comes just days after the North said that it would “completely review” the nuclear issue, amid concerns that Pyongyang may be planning a third nuclear test following its failed rocket launch in April.<br /><br />Pyongyang has recently increased hostility towards Seoul and Washington, accusing them of sending a spy to the country with a mission to blow up statues of Kim Il-Sung, adding that the plot amounted to a “war action”.<br /><br />“(North Korea) has various types of strike means... powerful enough to render the US modern war means ineffective,” the country’s National Defence Commission said in a statement carried by the state-run KCNA news agency.<br /></p>
<p>North Korea on Sunday vowed tough action against the United States, accusing it of plotting to blow up statues of its founding leader in a bid to stir turmoil in the isolated communist state.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The warning comes just days after the North said that it would “completely review” the nuclear issue, amid concerns that Pyongyang may be planning a third nuclear test following its failed rocket launch in April.<br /><br />Pyongyang has recently increased hostility towards Seoul and Washington, accusing them of sending a spy to the country with a mission to blow up statues of Kim Il-Sung, adding that the plot amounted to a “war action”.<br /><br />“(North Korea) has various types of strike means... powerful enough to render the US modern war means ineffective,” the country’s National Defence Commission said in a statement carried by the state-run KCNA news agency.<br /></p>