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N. Korea vows harsh retaliation against new sanctions
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea —
North Korea vowed Monday
to bolster its nuclear arsenal
and gain revenge of a “thou-
sand-fold” against the United
States in response to tough
U.N. sanctions imposed
following its recent intercon-
tinental ballistic missile tests.
The warning came two
days after the U.N. Secu-
rity Council unanimously
approved new sanctions to
punish North Korea, including
a ban on coal and other exports
worth over $1 billion. The
U.S. ambassador to the U.N.,
Nikki Haley, called the U.S.-
drafted resolution “the single
largest economic sanctions
package ever leveled against”
North Korea.
In a statement carried by
the North’s state-run Korean
Central News Agency, North
Korea’s government said the
sanctions were a “violent
infringement of its sover-
eignty” that was caused by a
“heinous U.S. plot to isolate
and stifl e” the country.
“We will make the U.S.
pay by a thousand-fold for
all the heinous crimes it
commits against the state and
people of this country,” the
statement said.
The North said it would
take an unspecifi ed “resolute
action of justice” and would
never place its nuclear
program on the negotiating
table or “fl inch an inch” from
its push to strengthen its
nuclear deterrence as long as
Sanctions may not halt nuclear program
Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File
This July 28, 2017, fi le photo distributed by the North Korean government on July
29 shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic
missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea.
U.S. hostility against North
Korea persists.
North Korean Foreign
Minister Ri Yong-ho made
similar comments during
an annual regional security
conference in Manila on
Monday.
South Korea’s govern-
ment said the North would
face stronger sanctions if it
doesn’t stop its nuclear and
missile provocation.
Lim Eul Chul, a North
Korea expert at South Korea’s
Kyungnam University, said
the comments by the North
demonstrate how angry it is
over the U.N. sanctions, but
that the country is not likely
to launch a pre-emptive strike
against the United States.
He said the North could still
carry out further missile tests
or a sixth atomic bomb test
in the coming months under
its broader weapons develop-
ment timetable.
North Korea test-launched
two ICBMs last month as
part of its efforts to possess
a long-range missile capable
of striking anywhere in the
mainland U.S. Both missiles
were fi red at highly lofted
angles, and analysts say the
weapons could reach parts
of the United States such
as Alaska, Los Angeles or
Chicago if fi red at a normal,
fl attened trajectory.
The centerpiece of the U.N.
sanctions is a ban on North
Korean exports of coal, iron,
lead and seafood products
— and a ban on all countries
importing those products,
estimated to be worth over $1
billion a year in hard currency.
The resolution also bans
countries from giving any
additional permits to North
Korean laborers, another
source of foreign currency for
the North, and prohibits all
new joint ventures with North
Korean companies.
Analysts say that North
Korea,
already
under
numerous U.N. and other
WASHINGTON (AP) — The strongest sanctions yet
against North Korea could still prove no match for the
communist country’s relentless nuclear weapons ambi-
tions.
While the United States hails a new package of U.N.
penalties that could cut a third of North Korea’s exports,
the sanctions themselves aren’t the American objective.
They’re only a tactic for getting Kim Jong Un’s totali-
tarian government to end its missile advances and atomic
weapons tests, and there is little evidence to suggest
this newest round of economic pressure will be more
successful than previous efforts.
Whatever the economic pain on Pyongyang, Kim’s
government has expressed no interest in negotiating
away its fast-growing arsenal of perhaps 20 nuclear
bombs and the ballistic missiles needed to deliver them.
For the young North Korean leader, the weapons are
fundamental to the survival of his authoritarian regime,
even if they deepen diplomatic isolation and bring even
more extreme poverty for his long-suffering people.
And the sanctions may not prove effective. The North
has learned through decades of U.S. efforts at isolation
how to circumvent commercial and fi nancial restrictions,
and reluctant powers like China and Russia have often
proven half-hearted partners when it comes to policing
their ally.
“On paper, this is a pretty strict containment of North
Korea economically,” said Scott Snyder, an expert on
Korea at the Council on Foreign Relations. “But North
Korea has been able to evade sanctions in the past and
it’s not clear to me things are going to be much different
this time.”
international sanctions, will
feel some pain from the new
sanctions but is not likely
to return to disarmament
negotiations anytime soon
because of them.
Lim, the North Korea
expert, said the North will
probably squeeze its ordinary
citizens to help fi nance its
nuclear and missile programs.
Shin Beomchul of the Seoul-
based Korea National Diplo-
matic Academy said sanctions
that can force a change from
North Korea would include a
ban on China’s annual, mostly
free shipment of 500,000 tons
of crude oil to North Korea
and the deporting by U.N.
member states of the tens of
thousands of North Korean
workers currently dispatched
abroad.
BRIEFLY
Hackers demand millions in
ransom for stolen HBO data
NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers using the name “Mr. Smith”
posted a fresh cache of stolen HBO fi les online Monday, and
demanded that HBO pay a ransom of several million dollars to
prevent further such releases.
The data dump included what appear to be scripts from fi ve
“Game of Thrones”
episodes, including
one upcoming episode,
and a month’s worth of
email from the account
of Leslie Cohen, HBO’s
vice president for fi lm
programming. There
were also internal
documents, including
a report of legal claims
Macall B. Polay/HBO via AP
against the network and This image released by HBO
shows Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
job offer letters to top
as Jaime Lannister in an ep-
executives.
isode of “Game of Thrones,”
HBO, which previ-
which aired Sunday, Aug. 7.
ously acknowledged
the theft of “proprietary
information,” said it’s continuing to investigate and is working
with police and cybersecurity experts. The network said
Monday that it still doesn’t believe that its email system as a
whole has been compromised.
This is the second data dump from the purported hacker.
So far the HBO leaks have been limited, falling well short of
the chaos infl icted on Sony in 2014. In that attack, hackers
unearthed thousands of embarrassing emails and released
personal information, including salaries and social security
numbers, of nearly 50,000 current and former Sony employees.
Those behind the HBO hack claim to have more data,
including scripts, upcoming episodes of HBO shows and
movies, and information damaging to HBO.
Trump looks to loyal voters as
support slips, agenda stalls
WASHINGTON (AP) — After six months of infi ghting,
investigations and legislative failures, President Donald Trump
is trying to combat new signs of weakness in his Republican
base and re-energize his staunchest supporters.
White House offi cials have been urging the president to
refocus on immigration and other issues that resonate with
the conservatives, evangelicals and working-class whites who
propelled him to the Oval Offi ce. The president has ramped up his
media-bashing via Tweet, long a successful tactic for Trump, and
staged rallies hoping to marshal his base to his defense.
The effort underscores Trump’s shaky political positioning
not yet seven months into his presidency. Trump has remained
deeply unpopular among Democrats, and there are signs that
his support among Republicans may be softening. His advisers
are aware that a serious slip in support among his core voters
could jeopardize hopes for a major, early legislative accom-
plishment and would certainly increase Republicans’ worries
about his re-election prospects.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway acknowledged
the concerns Sunday on ABC, saying the president’s approval
rating “among Republicans and conservatives and Trump
voters is down slightly.”
AUGUST 8-12, 2017
MSNBC surges in cable ratings
NEW YORK (AP) — For the fi rst month since CNN’s
Larry King owned cable news in October 2001, the most
popular personality in prime-time doesn’t work for Fox News
Channel. Rachel Maddow of MSNBC is the new champ.
Her network achieved other milestones in July, including its
closest fi nish to Fox since 2000 and largest margin of victory
over CNN ever. The numbers illustrate a surge in popularity at
MSNBC, where politics has become prime-time entertainment.
Like late-night comic Stephen Colbert can attest, having
President Donald Trump as a regular punching bag is great for
business.
“I thought there would be a lot of interest in news,” said
MSNBC President Phil Griffi n. “I had no idea this would
happen.”
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