U.N. warns North Korea against nuclear weapon test

Don't you dare.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday urged North Korea not to carry out a planned nuclear-weapon test and warned Pyongyang of unspecified consequences if it did.

Wow, that's actually a literal empty threat.

The warning, in a formal statement adopted unanimously, came three days after North Korea's announced it planned its first underground nuclear test, saying its hand had been forced by a U.S. "threat of nuclear war and sanctions."

Right, you're testing a nuclear weapon because the US warned you of sanctions if you test a nuclear weapon? Why North Korea, that doesn't make much sense. Countries don't even try to make it seem like they possibly know what they're talking about anymore do they?

U.S. officials have said the reclusive state might detonate a device as early as this weekend, and a Chinese source said Pyongyang planned to carry out the test deep inside an abandoned mine.

And this test should prove that a nuclear device, when detonated inside a deep mining cave, causes an explosion.