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A North Korean diplomat claims US sanctions against Kim Jong Un have put them on the path to war.

Han Song Ryol, director-general of the U.S. affairs department at North Korea’s Foreign Ministry, was pretty angry over Washington’s announcement which put leader Kim Jong Un on a list of sanctioned individuals in connection with alleged human rights abuses documented by the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

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‘The Obama administration went so far to have the impudence to challenge the supreme dignity of the DPRK in order to get rid of its unfavorable position during the political and military showdown with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.



‘The United States has crossed the red line in our showdown. We regard this thrice-cursed crime as a declaration of war.’


He added: ‘By doing these kinds of vicious and hostile acts toward the DPRK, the U.S. has already declared war against the DPRK. So it is our self-defensive right and justifiable action to respond in a very hard way.’

Yikes, sounds like fighting talk.

North Korea has been hit with several rounds of international sanctions over its continued development of nuclear weapons and missiles, but Han contended the U.S. is to blame.

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‘It is not us, it is the United States that first developed nuclear weapons, who first deployed them and who first used them against humankind,’ he said.

‘And on the issue of missiles and rockets, which are to deliver nuclear warheads and conventional weapons warheads, it is none other than the United States who first developed it and who first used it.’

He added that North Korea were unlikely to abandon their nuclear programme, adding: ‘We are all prepared for war, and we are all prepared for peace.

‘We never hide the fact, and we are very proud of the fact, that we have very strong nuclear deterrent forces not only to cope with the United States’ nuclear blackmail but also to neutralize the nuclear blackmail of the United States.’