You’ll pay the price for issuing fresh sanctions, North Korea tells US

Defiant North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong-Un has told the US that it’ll pay for the recent economic sanctions slammed upon Pyongyang which bans mineral and seafood exports worth more than $1bn from the country.

According to state-run KCNA news agency, Pyongyang would “not put our self-defensive nuclear deterrent on the negotiating table” while it faces threats from the US.

While referring to America’s role in drafting the UN sanctions resolution, North Korean authorities speaking through spokesman Bang Kwang Hyuk threatened to make the US “pay the price for its crime… thousands of times”.

Hyuk said; “The worsening situation on the Korean peninsula, as well as the nuclear issues, were caused by the United States.

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“We affirm that we’ll never place our nuclear and ballistic missiles programme on the negotiating table, and won’t budge an inch on strengthening nuclear armament.”

Hours after North Korea was slammed with the new economic sanctions, Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State praised the approval calling the move a “very good outcome”, while South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha echoed Tillerson’s praise for the approved sanctions as a “very, very good outcome”.

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, praised the move, telling council members after the vote that it is “the single largest economic package ever levelled against the North Korean regime.”
The sanctions imposed on North Korea aims to deprive the country of export revenue, banning mineral and seafood exports.

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