North Korea's state media has released video of leader Kim Jong-un visiting his father, Kim Jong-il's, mausoleum to commemorate the 7th anniversary of his death. Kim Jong-il is believed to have died due to medical conditions exacerbated by a heart attack in 2011. It comes a day after North Korea's foreign ministry condemned the US administration for stepping up sanctions. In a statement, the foreign ministry said that if the US administration believed pressure would force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons, ‘it will count as (its) greatest miscalculation, and it will block the path to denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula forever'

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2018 06:45 UTC