The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of North Korea has issued a statement on Monday warning against further sanctions against the isolated country. The United States has been pushing for harsh and tougher new sanctions, including an oil embargo against North Korea in response to last week’s hydrogen bomb test conducted by Pyongyang. Here is the full statement from DPRK foreign ministry, “The sanctions and pressure racket of the U.S. to completely obliterate the DPRK's sovereignty and right to existence is reaching an extremely reckless phase. The U.S. is going frantic to fabricate the harshest ever "sanctions resolution" by manipulating the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over the DPRK's ICBM mountable H-bomb test. The DPRK has developed and perfected the super-powerful thermo-nuclear weapon as a means to deter the ever-increasing hostile moves and nuclear threat of the U.S. and defuse the danger of nuclear war looming over the Korean peninsula and the region. However, instead of making a right choice based on rational analysis of the overall situation, the U.S. is trying to use the DPRK's legitimate self-defensive measures as an excuse to strangle and completely suffocate it. Since the U.S. is revealing its nature as a blood-thirsty beast obsessed with the wild dream of reversing the DPRK's development of the state nuclear force which has already reached the completion phase, there is no way that the DPRK is going to wait and let the U.S. feast on it. The DPRK is closely following the moves of the U.S. with vigilance. In case the U.S. eventually does rig up the illegal and unlawful "resolution" on harsher sanctions, the DPRK shall make absolutely sure that the U.S. pays due price.

The DPRK is ready and willing to use any form of ultimate means. The forthcoming measures to be taken by the DPRK will cause the U.S. the greatest pain and suffering it had ever gone through in its entire history. The world will witness how the DPRK tames the U.S. gangsters by taking series of action tougher than they have ever envisaged. The U.S. should be fully aware that as long as it persists with intense political, economic and military confrontation with the DPRK in defiance of its repeated stern warning, the former will never be able to avoid its permanent extinction.”

DPRK’s stark warning came as U.S. pushes for the oil embargo. Though China has expressed willingness to move ahead with tougher sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he doesn’t approve of an oil embargo on North Korea as I would mean unnecessary hardship for ordinary people and instead, called for diplomatic means to resolve the crisis. Latest reports suggest that the oil embargo clause may be dropped from the UNSC draft before today’s vote.