Present at the meeting were ambassadors of Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, India and Vietnam and the charge d'affaires ad interim of the Pakistani Embassy here.

Choe Hui Chol, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Department of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK, referred to the principled stand of the DPRK on the recent moves of the U.S. and south Korean puppet forces to isolate and stifle the DPRK.

The U.S. dared take issue with the supreme leadership of the DPRK on July 6 when opening to public the report of the Department of State related with the "human rights issue" of the DPRK peppered with false stories and fabrications and the list of targets of special sanctions of the Department of Treasury pursuant to it, he said, stressing this is an open declaration of a war against the DPRK as it is the worst hostile act far beyond confrontation over the "human rights issue".

Now that the U.S. crossed the "red line" in an all-out confrontation with the DPRK while slandering dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK, the latter can never remain a passive onlooker to this, he said, adding: Proceeding from this, the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK on July 7 stated that in case the U.S. does not lift the current sanctions, all diplomatic contact space and channels between the DPRK and the U.S. will be cut off immediately and the toughest measures to resolutely smash the U.S. hostile acts will be taken.

Referring to the fact that the south Korean puppet forces are steadily escalating the tension on the Korean peninsula as evidenced by the decision to deploy THAAD in south Korea in league with the U.S. despite the strong protest of the DPRK and its neighboring countries, he stressed that all Asian countries should be vigilant against this, clearly understand who is the ringleader and chief criminal driving the situation on the peninsula to an unpredictable phase and neither sympathize nor join in action harmful to the regional peace and stability.

Diplomatic envoys of Asian countries expressed deep understanding of the fact that the U.S. heinous hostile policy toward the DPRK is rendering the situation on the Korean peninsula and in the region extremely tense.