The DPRK commented on US plans to impose new sanctions
North Korea is not afraid of the US plans to adopt a new package of sanctions, which allegedly aimed to cut off North Korea from the global financial system, and will continue to “accelerate” its nuclear and missile programs.
About this Reuters said the Deputy representative of North Korea to the UN in Geneva Jo Myong Us.
Earlier, on March 21, sources Reuters reported on the preparation by Washington of sanctions against North Korea, which, according to them, this time will affect banks and financial institutions. The introduction of such measures, as said the interlocutor of the Agency, will allow to cut enterprises conducting trade with North Korea from the global financial system.
“I think it has to do with the visit of Secretary of state (USA Rex Tillerson) in Japan, South Korea and China,” — commented on these reports Cho Myung We also noted that the DPRK, of course, “not afraid of such action.”
Also North Korea, according to the representative of the diplomatic mission of DPRK to the UN, “will not frighten even a ban on international transactions or the global financial system.” “These things are part of their (American) system, which has (for us) of no value”, — said the source Reuters.
Existing sanctions against Pyongyang he called “disgusting and inhuman”, and also said that North Korea rejected the allegations of Washington and Seoul that ongoing U.S.-South Korea military exercises are defensive.
“In light of the fact that the joint exercise was attended by such a powerful armed forces, we have no other choice but to continue our full accelerating nuclear and missile programs,” he said, stressing that this is “precisely because of these hostile actions by the United States and South Korea.”
“I can say that Intercontinental ballistic missiles of the DPRK will start at any time and in any place according to the decision of our Supreme leadership,” concluded Jo Myong Us.