North Korea condemned its US terror listing as a “serious provocation” on Wednesday, warning that sanctions would never force it to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
US President Donald Trump this week declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, a spot on a US blacklist Pyongyang had shed nearly a decade ago.
On Tuesday the US also unveiled new sanctions targeting North Korean shipping and Chinese traders doing business with Pyongyang, raising the pressure on the pariah state to abandon its nuclear program.
“Our army and people are full of rage and anger towards the heinous gangsters who dared to put the name of our sacred country in this wretched list of ‘terrorism’,” state news agency KCNA quoted a foreign ministry spokesperson as saying.
Source: AFP
