Rodong Sinmun on U.S. blockade and sanctions
Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- The people's army and people of Korea have long suffered from the blockade and sanctions of the U.S. imperialists and the international reactionaries, but they will not be surprised or daunted by any tougher blockade and sanctions. Rodong Sinmun says this today in a signed article.If the U.S.-led imperialists try to violate the sovereignty and the right to existence of the Koreans and stamp out their socialist system by means of blockade and sanctions, the people's army and people of Korea will take the toughest counter-measures against the U.S. imperialists and their followers, the paper notes, and goes on:
The Bush administration has already declared "economic pressure" on the DPRK and urged the neighboring countries to decrease trade with it and check its "export of weapons".
This clearly shows to the world once again the vulnerability of the U.S. imperialists, irritated and uneasy about the building of a powerful socialist nation in the DPRK. It is a foolish delusion for them to frighten the people's army and people of Korea with a sort of "sanctions".
The army and people of Korea have a great history in which they have successfully pushed forward the revolution and construction despite the blockade of the U.S. imperialists and imperialist reactionaries since the republic was founded.
The U.S. set up a "consultative group cooperation committee" in November 1949 and has enforced control over export of technology and trade control against the DPRK in military, electronic, aerial and maritime fields.
The conditions of the country were very difficult in the period of the "arduous march and the forced march. The Korean people deeply grieved over the loss of the great father of the nation, coupled with natural disasters unprecedented in hundred years.
The U.S.-led imperialists took this opportunity to intensify economic sanctions against the DPRK.
But they did not work on the people's army and people of Korea at all.
The U.S. should not misjudge the people's army and people of Korea, oblivious of the historic lessons.
