It is the US which “pushed” the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea into making a hydrogen bomb, the head of North Korea’s delegation to the multinational Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting has said.
“Exactly the US have pushed the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] to become a possessor of the hydrogen bomb,” the deputy chairman of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea, An Tong Chun, announced Monday.
The North Korean official was speaking at the assembly of the world’s oldest international body of lawmakers in St. Petersburg, Russia. Parliamentarians from more than 160 nations are attending the IPU session.
Speaking at the session, the head of the DPRK delegation also called the US sanctions against his country “a display of state terrorism.”
“The sanctions are aimed at a full halt of our trade, even in those spheres that concern the survival of our people,” he said, adding that Washington “wants to destroy” North Korea.
