Seoul,
\nNorth Korea said it is a \u201cpipe dream\u201d for the United States to think it will give up its nuclear weapons, and called the latest UN sanctions to target the country \u201can act of war\u201d that violates its sovereignty.<\/p>\n
The UN Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions against North Korea on Friday in response to its latest launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang says can reach anywhere on the US mainland.<\/p>\n
The resolution was drafted by the United States and negotiated with the North\u2019s closest ally, China.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe define this \u2018sanctions resolution\u2019 rigged up by the US and its followers as a grave infringement upon the sovereignty of our Republic, as an act of war violating peace and stability in the Korean peninsula and the region and categorically reject the \u2018resolution,\u2019\u201d North Korea\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement yesterday.<\/p>\n
The ministry said the sanctions are tantamount to a \u201ccomplete economic blockade\u201d of North Korea.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the US wishes to live safely, it must abandon its hostile policy towards the DPRK and learn to co-exist with the country that has nuclear weapons and should wake up from its pipe dream of our country giving up nuclear weapons which we have developed and completed through all kinds of hardships,\u201d said the statement, carried by the North\u2019s official Korean Central News Agency.<\/p>\n
DPRK is short for North Korea\u2019s official name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n
The resolution adopted by the Security Council includes sharply lower limits on North Korea\u2019s refined oil imports, the return home of all North Koreans working overseas within 24 months, and a crackdown on ships smuggling banned items including coal and oil to and from the country.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration\u2019s success in achieving the resolution won praise from the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben Cardin of Maryland.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a good move, a major accomplishment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Cardin, who spoke on \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d said the stepped-up sanctions should be followed by diplomacy aimed at bringing the US and China together on a sustained effort to ease tensions in that region.<\/p>\n
But the resolution doesn\u2019t include even harsher measures sought by the Trump administration that would ban all oil imports and freeze international assets of the government and its leader, Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n
The resolution drew criticism from Russia for the short time the Security Council nations had to consider the draft, and last-minute changes to the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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