North Korea on Wednesday condemned its US terror listing as a "serious provocation", warning that sanctions would never force it to abandon its nuclear weapons programme.The response came shortly after China, the North's sole ally, also rejected the new US sanctions that targeted Chinese companies doing business with the pariah states, as "wrong".
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on Monday declared North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism, a spot on a US blacklist Pyongyang had shed nearly a decade ago.
On Tuesday the US unveiled its fresh sanctions which also targeted North Korean shipping, raising the pressure on the North to abandon its nuclear programme.
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"Our army and people are full of rage and anger towards the heinous gangsters who dared to put the name of our sacred country in this wretched list of 'terrorism'," North Korean state news agency KCNA quoted a foreign ministry spokesperson as saying.
Slamming Washington for behaving like an "international judge on terrorism", the spokesperson added that the US move was "clearly an absurdity and a mockery of world peace and security".