Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a commentator's article says that such action is the crudest violation of the DPRK's sovereignty, a product of the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices and a hideous criminal move to "bring down" the former's "social system".

The article goes on:

The U.S. is slapping such "sanctions" against the DPRK not because of its nukes and satellites but because it emerged a fortress of socialism in the east, convincing the world people of the inevitable doom of capitalism in practice, it is advancing proudly its own way, not bound to the international order set by the U.S. and its dollar domination and the DPRK is putting brake on the U.S. scenario to carry out the strategy to dominate the world from the steadfast independent stand of opposing the U.S.

All the "resolutions on sanctions" against the DPRK adopted at the UN are by no means an expression of the "general will" of its member states as they were invented by the U.S. and adopted by the world body through coercion of other countries.

It was quite natural that the DPRK branded such illegal "resolutions on sanctions" as crimes and categorically rejected them.

The U.S. and its followers' "sanctions" against the DPRK are only further hardening its army and people's revolutionary faith and capability for self-development and their iron will to counter the enemies' reactionary offensive with the revolutionary one.

The U.S. had better behave itself, properly understanding who its rival is.