NORTH KOREA has warned it will launch “thousands-fold” revenge against the US over the adoption of UN sanctions.
The threat comes two days after Donald Trump welcomed the single largest economic sanctions package ever on Kim Jong-un’s regime.
It comes at a time when it is clear that tensions are at an all-time high between the Hermit State and US, and that an all-out war could be days away.
The North’s statement, published by state media, said the sanctions were caused by a “heinous US plot to isolate and stifle” North Korea.
The warmongering nation said it will take “action of justice” as it warned UN sanctions will never force it to negotiate over its growing nuclear programme.
The UN resolution bans all North Korean exports of coal, iron, iron ore, lead, lead ore and seafood. It also limits the number of North Koreans permitted to work abroad, and bars countries from entering into new joint ventures with North Korea or investing in current ones.
The resolution also adds nine people and four entities – including North Korea’s primary foreign exchange bank – to the UN blacklist.
The sanctions were imposed in response to Jong-un’es five nuclear tests and four long-range missile launches and claims it can hit the United States with nuclear warheads.
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, told Fox News: “It is time for North Korea to realise, we are not playing anymore.
She added: “A third of their trade exports have been hit, and we basically gave them a kick in the gut with a billion dollars of sanctions that they are going to begin to feel right away.”
Jong-un’s only ally, on Sunday, warned the crackpot leader to stop testing nuclear bombs and missiles.
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi Wang said: “The Chinese side urged the North Korean side to calmly handle the resolutions and to not do anything unbeneficial towards the international community such as a nuclear test.”
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