Article: North Korea says Security Council's handling of nuclear issue is 'a prelude to war'

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Dateline: SEOUL, South Korea North Korea on Sunday rejected the U.N. Security Council's plan to discuss the standoff over its suspected nuclear weapons development, calling it "a prelude to war."

Talks about the crisis are scheduled for Wednesday, and Pyongyang has said that if the Security Council imposes sanctions, it will be tantamount to war.

The discussions are "a grave provocation act intended to scuttle all (the North's) effort for dialogue and aggravate the situation on the Korean Peninsula," a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by state-run news agency KCNA.

KCNA also quoted the spokesman as saying that even if a ...

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