North Korea Could Use Nuclear Arms Against Australia

North Korea could attack Australia with nuclear weapons if Canberra continues "blindly toeing the US line," a spokesman of North Korean Foreign Ministry said Sunday.

On Tuesday, Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said that North Korean nuclear weapons and missile program posed a threat to the country's security as the development of an intercontinental ballistic missile able to hit the US territory with a nuclear payload could also allow North Korea to hit the Australian territory.

"The present Government of Australia is blindly and zealously toeing the US line… If Australia persists in following the US' moves to isolate and stifle North Korea … this will be a suicidal act of coming within the range of the nuclear strike of the strategic force of North Korea," the spokesman said, as quoted by the Australian ABC broadcaster.

The spokesman added that Bishop...