North Korea Says US Sanctions Won’t Bring Pyongyang to Dialogue

North Korea condemned recent US sanctions imposed on its bankers, characterizing them as proof of US hostility and warning that such pressure won’t help resume dialogue between the two nations.

“The US should not expect or desire to see its own mode of dealing, which is full of pressure, appeasement, threat and blackmail, working on the DPRK some day,” Kim Un Chol, vice minister for US affairs at the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday.