TOKYO, Sept 19: North Korea today denied it was building a secret underground nuclear facility and threatened to retaliate if the United States persisted with allegations that it was constructing such a plant.The US has called for an outside inspection of the site, citing deep suspicions that North Korea is building a clandestine facility.``The underground structure near Nyong Byon is not a secret underground nuclear facility but a civilian structure,'' the North Korea's official newspaper Rodong Sinmun said.
``If the US continues to delay the implementation of the framework agreement on unreasonable pretexts and put pressure on the DPRK (North Korea), we will be compelled to take relevant action and measures,'' it said in a report carried by the official Korean central news agency (KCNA). The agency gave no information on what action North Korea might take.
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