Democratic People's Republic …North Korea describes latest U.N. sanctions as an "act of war"
With Dead and decomposing North Koreans regularly now washing ashore in their fishing boats you know that the common people in North Korea and starving and dying like flies. How long can Kim Jong Un hold onto his government before he has to use the nuclear weapons he has to remain longer in power? This remains to be seen. And yet, if he uses his nuclear weapons North Korea and it's people will exist no more because of this. He lives in another era and another time a throwback to another world entirely. He cannot exist much longer without something major changing besides all his common people starving and dying from the sanctions like now.
North Korea describes latest U.N. sanctions as an "act of war"
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Updated Dec 24, 2017 11:52 AM EST
SEOUL, South Korea -- North
Korea on Sunday called the latest U.N. sanctions to target the country
"an act of war" that violates its sovereignty, and said it is a "pipe
dream" for the United States to think it will give up its nuclear
weapons.
The United Nations Security Council imposed tough new sanctions on Friday in response to a ballistic missile North Korea said can reach the U.S.
The resolution adopted
by all 15 council members didn't go as far as the toughest-ever
sanctions that have been sought by the Trump administration, such as
prohibiting all oil imports and freezing international assets of North
Korea's government and its leader, Kim Jong Un. But it was a sign that
China has come around to ratcheting up of pressure on Pyongyang, CBS
News' Pamela Falk reported from the U.N. The unanimous passage showed
that Beijing is working with Washington to increase economic pressure on
the North Korean regime in response to its nuclear program.
"It
sends the unambiguous message to Pyongyang that further defiance will
invite further punishment and isolation," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
Nikki Haley said of the resolution after a Friday vote.
On
Sunday, North Korea's foreign ministry said in a statement the sanctions
are tantamount to a "complete economic blockade" of North Korea.
"We
define this 'sanctions resolution' rigged up by the U.S. 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 'resolution,'" the statement
said.
North
Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes a closing remark at 5th Conference of
Cell Chairpersons of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on December 23 in
this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
in Pyongyang December 24, 2017.
KCNA via REUTERS
"If
the U.S. 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," said the statement, carried by the North's official
Korean Central News Agency.
DPRK is short for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The
resolution adopted by the Security Council includes sharply lower
limits on North Korea's 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.
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. Two of those changes were extending the deadline
for North Korean workers to return home from 12 months to 24 months --
which Russia said was the minimum needed -- and reducing the number of
North Koreans being put on the U.N. sanctions blacklist from 19 to 15.
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