Sydney, Jan 26 : North Korea has renewed its threat to carry out a third nuclear test saying it''s the `demand of the people.'

It came a day after the isolated Asian nation said the UN sanctions adopted earlier this week amounted to a "declaration of war", threatening the South with unspecified "physical counter-measures".

Rodong Sinmun, the official daily newspaper of the ruling communist party, said that a `nuclear test is the demand of the people, and that the UN Security Council has left the country `with no other option', the Herald Sun reports.

It further said that `the people''s demand is that we must do something even greater than a nuclear test.'

North Korean state media regularly use bombastic rhetoric and it was unclear what the Rodong Sinmun was referring to when it mentioned action "greater than a nuclear test," the report said. (ANI)