N Korea will treat UN sanctions on nuclear program in "do-or-die" spirit

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North Korea said Monday it would react with a "do-or-die" attitude if the United States brought UN sanctions over the country's nuclear program, saying the US was "getting on its nerves".

"The stand of the DPRK (North Korea) is that the US may bring the nuclear issue to the UNSC (United Nations Security Council), if it wants that so much," a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by KCNA news agency.
"But, we make one thing clear: The DPRK will regard the sanctions as a declaration of war. We are fully ready to cope with everything in a do or die spirit and have already prepared all countermeasures against the sanctions."

The spokesman reiterated Pyongyang's line that Washington should offer incentives if it wanted the North to rejoin stalled six-nation talks on getting the isolated regime to give up its nuclear weapons program. "If the United States is really interested in the resumption of the six-way talks, it should provide the DPRK with conditions and justification to return to the talks," the unnamed spokesman said. "Far from showing elementary respect and sincerity to the dialogue partner, it is seriously getting on the nerves of the DPRK," he said.


In early April, it shut down its only functioning nuclear reactor and said it planned to unload spent nuclear fuel from the plant and reprocess it into weapons-grade plutonium. "We have built the nuclear deterrent force with so much effort despite enormous difficulties in order to effectively cope with the arrogant, outrageous and brigandish method of the US," the ministry spokesman said. "We remain undeterred by reckless remarks of Rice. We know what we should do at the decisive moment and will react to the hardline action of the US with the toughest action."
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