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U.S. Persistent Sanctions and Blockade against DPRK Accused

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, January 13 (KCNA) -- It is foolish of the U.S. imperialists to calculate that they can frighten and suffocate the DPRK and bring it to its knees through sanctions and blockade and their illegal sanctions and blockade would get them nowhere. Rodong Sinmun today says this in a by-lined article.
    It cites facts to prove that the above-said dastardly sanctions and blockade had long been in the making and have been systematically imposed upon the DPRK in all fields and they are fraught with increasing danger in the new century.
    The United States has escalated international pressure upon the DPRK so far under the pretext of the nuclear issue between the DPRK and the U.S. But it dared not form a united front with its allies and followers in order to tighten collective sanctions and blockade against the DPRK. It is now set to put them into practice in real earnest.
    These moves of the U.S. imperialists are based on their foolish calculation that the DPRK is not in a position to stand up against the U.S., the world's "only superpower", and its economic and diplomatic offensives will bring Pyongyang to its knees. They are blocking the DPRK's trade channels, etc. in a bid to isolate and suffocate it at any cost. Their immediate aim is to force the DPRK to accept their unjust demand that it scrap its nuclear program first at the six-party talks. What merits a more serious attention is that their sanctions and blockade against the DPRK may lead to a war against it. This can be proved by the fact that they launched armed invasion against Iraq while imposing economic sanctions upon it for years.
    The injustice of the above-said sanctions and blockade lies in that they are illegal acts of defying international law and norms governing the relations among countries and swimming against the trend of the overall international situation toward peace and detente in the new century. The U.S. would be well advised to seriously take stock of the setbacks and frustrations it has met in its policy of sanctions and blockage against the DPRK and reexamine it and make a policy switchover, urges the article.