SEOUL ¨C North Korea said Sunday that the United States¡¯ push for sanctions following its fifth nuclear test is ¡°laughable¡± and the country will continue to strengthen its nuclear power.
¡°The group of Obama¡¯s running around and talking about meaningless sanctions until today is highly laughable,¡± state-run KCNA news agency cited a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying in a statement.
The United States may launch unilateral sanctions against North Korea, a U.S. special envoy for the isolated state said earlier Sunday, two days after it carried out its fifth and biggest nuclear test in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
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