White House warns North Korea

US: The White House warned North Korea Monday that bellicose behavior did nothing to ease its isolation or feed its people, after Pyongyang's military threatened to turn parts of Seoul to “ashes.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney would not react specifically to the North Korean threat of “special actions” in the coming days, but he said he could not rule out more provocative behavior from the Stalinist state.

“Provocative behavior by the North Korean regime does nothing to feed its people. In fact, it does the opposite,” Carney said. “It does nothing to grow that economy. In fact, it does the opposite. It does nothing to reduce the isolation of that regime from the rest of the world. AFP