N. Korea Is under ’Leningrad-style US Siege’!

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The UN adopted its toughest economic sanctions to date on North Korea after Pyongyang conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and a space rocket launch a month later.

North Korea's top military body accused US-led "hostile forces" of laying siege to the country like Leningrad in World War II and Cuba during the Cold War missile crisis.

In a statement carried Monday by the North's official KCNA news agency, a spokesman for the National Defense Commission [NDC] also said the latest UN sanctions imposed on Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program were "anachronistic and suicidal" and could trigger a nuclear strike on the US mainland.

For its part, the UN Security Council adopted its toughest economic sanctions to date on North Korea after Pyongyang conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and a space rocket launch a month later that was widely viewed as a disguised ballistic missile test.

The NDC spokesman said the sanctions were the work of "the US and other hostile forces" who were intent on attacking North Korea "in a flock to swallow it up."

"The Leningrad blockade which struck terror into the hearts of people ... and the Caribbean crisis in the Cold War era can hardly stand comparison with the situation," the statement added.

Far from breaking the North, such treatment would only strengthen its resolve, it said, adding that Washington was engineering a crisis that could see the North "make a retaliatory nuclear strike at the US mainland any moment."

North Korea has been making nuclear strike threats against the United States and South Korea for weeks, after the two countries launched large scale, joint military exercises that Pyongyang views as a provocative rehearsal for invasion.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team