North Korea may ‘seek a new path’ after dumping nuclear testing pledge
- North Korean representative accused the US of applying ‘ the most brutal and inhumane sanctions’
- The comments came at the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament in Geneva
North Korea on Tuesday said that as the United States had ignored its year-end deadline for nuclear talks, it no longer felt bound by commitments, which included a halt to its nuclear testing and the firing of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
“We found no reason to be unilaterally bound any longer by the commitment that the other party fails to honour”,“ Ju Yong Chol, a counsellor at North Korea’s mission to the United Nations in Geneva, told the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament.
Speaking as the envoy from the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK), he accused the United States of applying “the most brutal and inhuman sanctions”, adding: “If the US persists in such hostile policy towards the DPRK there will never be the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”.
“If the United States tries to enforce unilateral demands and persists in imposing sanctions, North Korea may be forced to seek a new path,” Ju added.