Advocates strong action against U.S.

A North Korean organisation demanded on Thursday that the U.S. be “beaten to death” like a “rabid dog” for spearheading fresh UN sanctions on Pyongyang over its latest nuclear test, adding ally Japan should be “sunken into the sea”.

The UN Security Council unanimously imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the North on Monday, banning it from trading in textiles and restricting its oil imports, a week after Pyongyang tested what it said was a hydrogen bomb small enough to fit onto a missile.

A spokesman for the North’s Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (KAPPC) denounced the “heinous sanctions resolution” and said there were mounting calls for strong retaliation against the U.S. and its allies. “Now is the time to annihilate the U.S. imperialist aggressors. Let’s reduce the U.S. mainland into ashes and darkness,” he said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

According to the South’s unification ministry, the KAPPC acts as “a window for improving relations with countries like the U.S. and Japan... while campaigning to change North Korea’s closed and negative image”.