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PYONGYANG,
Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The National Reconciliation Council of the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday accused the United States of
forcing its southern neighbor to join sanctions over a recent nuke test, and
called on South Koreans to resist U.S. intervention.
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"The
United States is pressurizing South Korea to apply sanctions against the DPRK
and inciting confrontation with it," a spokesman for the council said in a
statement.
South Korea on Thursday joined the U.S.-led sanctions
against its neighbor by preventing the entry of any DPRK personnel suspected of
having links to the country's nuclear and other weapons programs.
The United States had been trying to persuade the
South Korean government to support the UN sanction, which was passed by the
Security Council after the DPRK conducted its first nuclear test on Oct. 9.
Citing its nuclear deterrent as a self-defense
instrument, the statement blamed the U.S. intervention as an "intolerable
encroachment upon the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation."
This U.S. behavior, the statement said, was aimed at
driving a wedge between the south and the north, inciting confrontation between
fellow countrymen and pushing the situation on the Korean Peninsula to a phase
of war.
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