North Korea vows ‘thousands-fold’ payback in response to UN sanctions

Published August 7, 2017 11:37am ET



North Korea threatened “thousands-fold” revenge against the U.S. following new U.N.-imposed sanctions against Kim Jong Un’s country, according to reports Monday morning.

Kim decried the sanctions as a “violent violation of our sovereignty” and part of a “heinous plot to isolate and stifle” the country, according to KCNA news agency.

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