North Korea has slammed the US sanctions against the country saying Washington is an international hooligan brandishing sanctions club.
The "DPRK strongly condemns and rejects the so-called unilateral sanctions by the US, and all other countries in the world also need to seriously ponder over the outrageous and unlawful act of the US," a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Korea (DPRK) said in a statement, carried by the country's official news agency KCNA.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump signed 'Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act' - one package, which ushers in further economic sanctions against North Korea, Iran and Russia.
"The act of the US which is so fond of rigging up sanctions law and brandishing the sanctions club against other sovereign states is no better than that of a hooligan which cannot be allowed by international law," the spokesman said.
Pyongyang reasoned that Washington is just "terrified" of the rapid advance of the Korean nuclear and missile program, which achieved an "undeniable reality" of possessing atomic and hydrogen bombs, as well as intercontinental ballistic means to deliver them. Pyongyang made clear that US sanctions will never work on North Korea.
"The sanctions campaign by the US might work on the other countries, but never with the DPRK," the spokesman defiantly said. "The anachronistic daydream of the US politicians of damaging by means of sanctions the overall national power and strategic prestige of the DPRK which has been markedly boosted are being subject to humiliation within the US as well."
Pyongyang also criticized the travel ban the US State Department introduced for Americans starting from next month. The ban was prompted by the tragic and mysterious death of US college student Otto Warmbier in June who was previously jailed in North Korea.
The North Koreans called the travel ban "a vile measure to limit the people-to-people exchange so as not to allow the US citizens to see the true picture" of the DPRK.
"The US administration took this childish measure of issuing a travel ban to our country while finding fault with the exercise of legitimate right of the sovereign state," the foreign ministry spokesman said, noting that "there is no country in the world that will ignore the foreigners who committed hostile acts within its territory."
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have been near boiling point following increased provocations by the US which includes military drills and deployment of warships and submarines in the region.
Pyongyang insists that developing its military defenses including nuclear weapons is important to counter incessant provocations by the US including a possible nuclear aggression.
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