The US will face the “greatest pain and suffering” and “permanent extinction” if it insists on imposing new sanctions against North Korea over Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test, the defiant Asian nation warned.
In a statement released by the state news agency KCNA on Monday, the North Korean Foreign Ministry threatened the US with a series of unspecified measures which it would take in retaliation for Washington’s effort to impose new economic sanctions against Pyongyang.
“Since the US is revealing its nature as a bloodthirsty 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, ” the statemen t said, referring to North Korea by the nation’s abbreviated full name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
On September 3, North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear test, claiming that the device used was a hydrogen bomb small enough to be fitted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. Earlier it tested a long-range ballistic missile, which, according to US estimates, can reach its west coast.
Pyongyang insists it needs nuclear deterrence to prevent a military aggression by the US and its regional allies. Washington says North Korea is “begging for war” by developing nuclear and rocket technology.
