North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes as he arrives to inspect a military drill at an unknown location, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 25, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA
Japan Times/AFP: North Korea blames U.S. for creating a ‘Leningrad-style siege’
SEOUL – North Korea’s top military body has accused U.S.-led “hostile forces” of laying siege to the country like Leningrad — present-day St. Petersburg — in World War II and Cuba during the Cold War missile crisis.
In a statement carried Monday by the North’s official KCNA news agency, a spokesman for the National Defense Commission (NDC) also said the latest U.N. sanctions imposed on Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program are “anachronistic and suicidal” and could trigger a nuclear strike on the U.S. mainland.
The U.N. Security Council adopted its toughest economic sanctions to date on North Korea after Pyongyang conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and a space rocket launch a month later that was widely viewed as a disguised ballistic missile test.
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Update #1: North Korea accuses US of subjecting it to 'Leningrad blockade' -- The Telegraph
Update #2: North Korea Is Not Happy With U.N. Sanctions -- AP
WNU Editor: Is North Korea looking for a way out of the current crisis? .... N.Korea Demands Talks as Sanctions Bite (Chosun Ilbo).
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