“The world will witness how the DPRK tames the US gangsters by taking a series of actions tougher than they have ever envisaged,” North Korea‘s Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson stated on Monday ahead UN sanctions vote at the Security Council meeting in New York.
The United States will pay a “due price” if hard UN sanctions against North Korea the statement said. The proposed resolution, though less severe than the US originally aimed to secure, is to be voted on by the council.
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According to the statement, North Korea was watching the United States’ moves closely and warned that it was “ready and willing” to respond with measures of its own. It also warned the United States it would pay a “due price” for spearheading the sanction efforts.
“The US is trying to use the DPRK’s legitimate self-defensive measures as an excuse to strangle and completely suffocate it,” the statement said, using the acronym for North Korea’s formal name. “Since the US is revealing its nature as a blood-thirsty beast obsessed with the wild dream of reversing the DPRK’s development of the state nuclear force which has already reached the completion phase, there is no way that the DPRK is going to wait and let the US feast on it.”
North Korea news agency published this announcement:
Pyongyang, September 11 (KCNA) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Monday released the following statement:
The sanctions and pressure racket of the U.S. to completely obliterate the DPRK’s sovereignty and right to existence is reaching an extremely reckless phase.
The U.S. is going frantic to fabricate the harshest ever “sanctions resolution” by manipulating the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over the DPRK’s ICBM mountable H-bomb test.
The DPRK has developed and perfected the super-powerful thermo-nuclear weapon as a means to deter the ever-increasing hostile moves and nuclear threat of the U.S. and defuse the danger of nuclear war looming over the Korean peninsula and the region.
However, instead of making a right choice based on rational analysis of the overall situation, the U.S. is trying to use the DPRK’s legitimate self-defensive measures as an excuse to strangle and completely suffocate it.
Since the U.S. is revealing its nature as a blood-thirsty beast obsessed with the wild dream of reversing the DPRK’s development of the state nuclear force which has already reached the completion phase, there is no way that the DPRK is going to wait and let the U.S. feast on it.
The DPRK is closely following the moves of the U.S. with vigilance.
In case the U.S. eventually does rig up the illegal and unlawful “resolution” on harsher sanctions, the DPRK shall make absolutely sure that the U.S. pays due price.
The DPRK is ready and willing to use any form of ultimate means.
The forthcoming measures to be taken by the DPRK will cause the U.S. the greatest pain and suffering it had ever gone through in its entire history.
The world will witness how the DPRK tames the U.S. gangsters by taking series of action tougher than they have ever envisaged.
The U.S. should be fully aware that as long as it persists with intense political, economic and military confrontation with the DPRK in defiance of its repeated stern warning, the former will never be able to avoid its permanent extinction. -0-
North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test a week ago and has been launching ballistic missiles at a record pace. Both are violations of UN resolutions, but Pyongyang claims it must carry them out to build nuclear deterrent against what it sees as US aggression.
Undaunted by the international criticism of its test, which Pyongyang said was a hydrogen bomb, Pyongyang celebrated through the weekend, with concerts and banquets for the country’s nuclear scientists and engineers.
An earlier draft circulated by the United States called for imposing the toughest-ever UN sanctions on North Korea, including a ban on all oil and natural gas exports to the country and a freeze of all foreign financial assets of the government and its leader, Kim Jong Un.
The current draft resolution, however, appears to have been watered down to appease North Korean allies Russia and China, which both have veto powers, diplomats said. While it no longer proposes blacklisting Kim and reduces sanctions on oil and gas, it still proposes a ban on textile exports.
The Trump administration presented the current draft to China and all other Security Council members last Tuesday and demanding a vote in six days. Diplomats said China’s UN ambassador Liu Jieyi, who was on a Security Council trip to Ethiopia, flew back to New York on Thursday to take part in the negotiations.
Ethiopia’s UN mission, which acts as the current Security Council president, issued a statement late Sunday, saying that members would vote on a North Korea resolution following a meeting Monday afternoon on implementing existing sanctions against the Pyongyang government.
A Security Council resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States, Britain, France, Russia or China to pass.
