North Korea: U.S. will 'pay dearly' if human rights criticism continues

There were no weapons tests this time, but North Korea once again made some trans-Pacific waves Saturday.Pyongyang's state news agency, KCNA, issued a statement attributed to a foreign ministry spokesman warning the United States in response to Washington's recent decision to join several other states in condemning North Korea's human rights abuses in an annual United Nations General Assembly resolution Wednesday. The KCNA statement said if the U.S. continued to call out North Korea's human righ