North Korea’s Warning Shot to US: ‘Your Sanctions Will Backfire, Fuel Our Nuclear Power’

North Korea expressed its opposition to the United States’ efforts to prepare alternatives ahead of the termination of the activities of the expert panel under the UN Security Council’s North Korea Sanctions Committee on the 25th.

Kim Eun Chul, Deputy Minister in charge of the United States at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a speech through the Korean Central News Agency, “The United States has been desperate to fill the gap in the sanctions pressure structure as the illegal existence that has been monitoring the implementation of sanctions against North Korea over the past 10 years at the UN is at risk of collapse.“

He also argued, “The sanction obsession that the current US administration is showing is nothing new to us who have lived in the sanctions of hostile forces for more than half a century.”

Kim said, “Each time the United States manipulated a new sanctions resolution on the UN stage in the past, it triggered a more powerful and improved nuclear test of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), and the brutal sanctions of the United States have acted as a catalyst and a driving force for the gradual increase of our national power.”

He then warned, “Our Republic is the country that becomes stronger and more resilient as more sanctions and pressure are applied. If the United States opens up a new sanctions board, we will seize the opportunity needed to advance the power that the United States fears most.”

Kim stated, “We will rigorously defend our sovereign rights and security interests from the escalating hostile threats and sanctions pressure from the United States. We will take more powerful practical actions to make the military-technical superiority we have gained and to enhance our control over the surrounding security situation.”

Due to Russia’s opposition, the term of the UN Security Council expert panel is not extended and will end on the 30th of this month. The United States is seeking alternatives to replace the role of the expert panel with South Korea, Japan, and others.