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| North Korea says Trump's terror sponsor label is a 'serious provocation' | North Korea says Trump's terror sponsor label is a 'serious provocation' |
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| Donald Trump's decision to label North Korea a state sponsor of terror is a "serious provocation", Pyongyang has said. | |
| The US President announced on Monday that the North would join Iran, Sudan and Syria on a list of countries that have “repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism”. | |
| The move triggered sanctions including restrictions on US foreign assistance and a ban on defence exports and sales. | |
| North Korean state media reacted on Wednesday by calling it a "serious provocation and violent infringement" of the communist regime. | |
| A spokesman for the foreign ministry denied in an interview with the state media outlet KCNA that his government engaged in any terrorism, saying the designation was "just a tool for American style authoritarianism that can be attached or removed at any time in accordance with its interests". | |
| The official said Pyongyang was now more committed than ever to its nuclear missile programme. | |
| Referring to North Korea by the initials of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, he said: "As long as the US continues with its anti-DPRK hostile policy, our deterrence will be further strengthened. | |
| "The US will be held entirely accountable for all the consequences to be entailed by its impudent provocation to the DPRK." | |
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