North Korea’s foreign ministry threatened the United States with “the greatest pain and suffering it had ever gone through in its entire history” on Monday, the 16th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001.
In a statement broadcast by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang warned the American delegation at the United Nations against attempting to pass a new round of sanctions against the regime in response to its test of an alleged hydrogen atomic bomb this month. Early reports suggest the United States is attemptingto garner support for a resolution that would impose a global embargo on North Korea’s oil industry; the most recent round of sanctions cut off North Korea’s coal and seafood industries.
“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 foreign ministry statement read, threatening a “due price” on Washington for confronting North Korea’s belligerence.
“The DPRK is ready and willing to use any form of ultimate means,” the statement concluded. DPRK is an abbreviation for the nation’s name for itself, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea READ MORE
