Britain “should be concerned” about North Korea’s activities, William Hague said.
The Foreign Secretary said the “danger of miscalculation” by Kim Jong-un’s regime, which had worked itself up into a “frenetic state of rhetoric”, must be considered.
But he insisted it was vital the international community remained calm and stated there were no signs that North Korea was beginning to re-position its forces ready for war.
Mr Haig said: “There’s a threat to the world from any country breaching the non-proliferation treaty, which North Korea is doing, acting in contravention of a whole series of UN Security Council resolutions and setting out to develop more and more longer range weapons, testing new nuclear weapons and indulging in the proliferation of many items to other countries as well.
“We should be concerned about that. There is a danger in that.
“But it is important to stress that we haven’t seen in recent days, in recent weeks, a change in what is happening in North Korean society.”
