Islam Times - US to Pay ’Thousands of Times’ over New Sanctions: North Korea

Islam Times - North Korea threatened to launch “thousands-fold” revenge against the US after the UN imposed new sanctions on the East Asian nation over recent tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The official KCNA news agency, in a Monday statement, denounced the UN Security Council sanctions as a “violent violation of our sovereignty” and part of a “heinous US plot to isolate and stifle” the country.

Painting the sanctions as a “crime,” Pyongyang vowed Washington would pay “thousands of times”.

The North Korean statement did not indicate what action it was considering in response to the UN move, but said additional sanctions would not force it into negotiations over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. “We will not put our self-defensive nuclear deterrent on the negotiating table … and will never take a single step back from strengthening our nuclear might,” it said.

The KCNA alluded to North Korea’s new capability on Monday, saying: “There is no bigger mistake than the United States believing that its land is safe across the ocean.”