North Korea threatens nuclear test

SEOUL, April 29 (Reuters) - North Korea on Wednesday threatened to conduct a nuclear test and also to test an intercontinental ballistic missile unless the U.N. Security Council apologises for imposing sanctions against it.

The North's foreign ministry spokesman, in a statement carried by official KCNA news agency, also demanded the Security Council withdraw all resolutions against the state for previous missile and nuclear tests. The Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea following a ballistic missile launch in July 2006 and a nuclear test a few months later. It called for those sanctions to be tightened after North fired a long-range rocket early this month. (Reporting by Jack Kim, editing by Jonathan Thatcher)