Economics
Kim Blasts ‘Vicious' Sanctions Squeezing North Korean Economy
- New sign of frustation with pace of peace talks with Trump
- Regime’s plan to develop tourist hub hit by economic blockade
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Kim Jong Un lashed out at the “vicious” sanctions regime against North Korea in the latest sign of his frustration with the pace of peace talks with the Trump administration.
Kim leveled some of his most blunt criticism yet of the sanctions restricting the flow of goods and capital to his country while visiting a construction site in a northeastern coastal city of Wonsan, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency. Limits on trade and travel had put North Korea’s attempts to develop the area into a regional tourist hub in a “difficult and tense situation.”