North Korea denounces the recent US sanctions and describes them as… "Hostility"

These criticisms come after the US Treasury Department announced this week imposing sanctions on eight individuals and two entities. "For their role in laundering money derived from a range of illicit schemes for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea"

US sanctions on North Korea

The ministry explained that these individuals "State-backed hackers" They carried out illegal operations "To finance the regime’s nuclear weapons program" North Korea by stealing and laundering money.

US officials said that "Cybercriminals in Pyongyang have stolen more than $3 billion US dollars over the past three years, especially in cryptocurrencies, and often use sophisticated techniques such as advanced malware."

Kim Un Chol, Deputy Minister of American Affairs in the North Korean Foreign Ministry, denounced this measure in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency on Thursday.

He said: "The new US administration recently imposed its exclusive sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the fifth of its kind since it took power".

He added: It is "In doing so, it clearly demonstrated its anti-DPRK stance"

The conflict between America and North Korea

Kim indicated that the sanctions will not affect the country’s political course, but they will "It will be recorded only as a typical example of failure in its (the United States’) intractable policy towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea."

The latest sanctions come after US President Donald Trump repeatedly expressed his willingness to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his Asian tour last week, an offer to which Pyongyang did not respond.

Kim met with Trump three times during the US president’s first term, but relations between the two sides deteriorated due to disagreements related to Pyongyang’s nuclear program.