By Choi Sung-jin
North Korea is going all out to minimize the impact of the sanctions that passed the U.N. Security Council Wednesday (KST), calling for internal unity and denouncing South Korea and its leader.
"The imperialists are sanctioning and blockading progressive countries to suffocate the latter economically and bringing them to their knees," said the Rodong Shinmun, the organ of the Workers' Party. "It is more important than anything else to build a self-reliant national economy against this backdrop."
Saying that the U.S. and its allies are resorting to military power to trample the sovereignty of progressive countries, the newspaper also said: "We need to strengthen national defense to repel aggression, intervention and pressures."
The party organ also continued to bombard President Park Geun-hye with criticism. In a bylined commentary, the paper said the South Korean president had turned history back to the dictatorial days of Yushin, or Revitalizing Reform, of the 1970s.
It said President Park "played checkmate with a number of companies that operated in Gaeseong Industrial Complex and smashed her own signboard of ‘trustpolitik.'"
North Korea watchers say the paper's strong, persistent rhetoric is aimed at cementing internal unity and preparing its people for the unprecedented tough sanctions.
North Korea is going all out to minimize the impact of the sanctions that passed the U.N. Security Council Wednesday (KST), calling for internal unity and denouncing South Korea and its leader.
"The imperialists are sanctioning and blockading progressive countries to suffocate the latter economically and bringing them to their knees," said the Rodong Shinmun, the organ of the Workers' Party. "It is more important than anything else to build a self-reliant national economy against this backdrop."
Saying that the U.S. and its allies are resorting to military power to trample the sovereignty of progressive countries, the newspaper also said: "We need to strengthen national defense to repel aggression, intervention and pressures."
The party organ also continued to bombard President Park Geun-hye with criticism. In a bylined commentary, the paper said the South Korean president had turned history back to the dictatorial days of Yushin, or Revitalizing Reform, of the 1970s.
It said President Park "played checkmate with a number of companies that operated in Gaeseong Industrial Complex and smashed her own signboard of ‘trustpolitik.'"
North Korea watchers say the paper's strong, persistent rhetoric is aimed at cementing internal unity and preparing its people for the unprecedented tough sanctions.
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