The Obama administration, instead of positively responding to the patient and consistent stand of the DPRK for peace and reunification of the country, announced "new sanctions" against the DPRK, the statement said, and went on:

The U.S. "sanctions" are very unreasonable as they are based on false "evidence".

The hacking at the Sony Pictures Entertainment was made by those who were disillusioned with it or by the camouflaged operation of the CIA.

The Policy Department of the NDC of the DPRK in a statement said that the U.S. should lift all unreasonable "sanctions" against the DPRK in all fields, make a bold decision to unconditionally stop all reckless hostile acts of creating the danger of war on the Korean peninsula and not forget even a moment that the army and people of the DPRK have already launched the toughest counteraction.

The U.S. imperialists are standing at the crucial juncture to roll back its old anachronistic and reactionary hostile policy toward the DPRK.