UNITED NATIONS — North Korea on Wednesday dismissed as "nonsense" what it said was a U.S. claim that Pyongyang hacked the database of the United Nations committee that monitors sanctions against the North, saying the Trump administration should instead be working toward peace. The mission said the United States "again picked fault" with North Korea over the hacking incident at a closed meeting of the sanctions committee on Monday. The Security Council has imposed increasingly tough sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear weapons program that have severely restricted its exports and imports. North Korea reiterated that it has never recognized the Security Council's sanctions resolutions and the 1718 committee, calling both "illegal and unlawful." ___This story has been corrected to show that the North Korea statement was not the first report on hacking aimed at the U.N. sanctions committee's database.

Source: Philippine Star May 03, 2018 00:00 UTC