A spokesman for the North’s Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee (KAPPC) denounced the “heinous sanctions resolution” and said there were mounting calls for strong retaliation against the US and its allies. Let’s reduce the US mainland into ashes and darkness,” it said. North Korea has a long history of issuing dramatic threats against the US and its allies but not carrying them out. North Korea says it needs nuclear weapons to protect itself from “hostile” US forces. Experts believe Pyongyang’s weapons program has made rapid progress under leader Kim Jong-Un, with previous sanctions having done little to deter it.

Source: Manila Times September 14, 2017 02:03 UTC