The Ethiopian Taekwon-Do Federation released the following statement on August 9:

We support the principled stand of the DPRK government.

The DPRK's access to the strongest nuclear force is to defend the sovereignty of the country and the vital right of the nation from the high-handed and arbitrary practices of the U.S. that have pursued its hostile policy toward the DPRK and threatened it with nukes over more than half a century.

It is a just measure for self-defence.

The U.S. should clearly see the strategic position and retaliation will of the DPRK and stop its reckless attempt at stifling the DPRK.

The Moscow Group for the Study of the Juche Idea said in a statement on August 8 that the U.S. cooked up the "sanctions resolution" 2371 against the DPRK by abusing the name of the UN Security Council.

The statement went on:

The imperialists persist in frantic sanctions and blockade against the DPRK, regarding it prospering day by day as a thorn in the flesh, but they will not invade even an inch of the DPRK's land.

The fabrication of the new "sanctions resolution" against the DPRK is an insult to the whole mankind.

On the same day, the Dagestan Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Policy of Russia in a statement fully supported the unshakable will of the Korean people to make the U.S. pay for its heinous crimes a thousand-fold.