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SEOUL, (APP/AFP) – North Korea’s top military
body has accused US-led “hostile forces” of laying siege to the country like Leningrad 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 Defence Commission (NDC) also said the latest UN sanctions imposed on Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons programme were “anachronistic and suicidal” and could trigger a nuclear strike on the US mainland.
The UN 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.
The NDC spokesman said the sanctions were the work of “the US and
other hostile forces” who were intent on attacking North Korea “in a flock to swallow it up.”
“The Leningrad blockade which struck terror into the hearts of people
… and the Caribbean crisis in the Cold War era can hardly stand comparison with the situation,” the statement said.