North Korea lashed out at the U.S. on Tuesday after Washington redesignated it a state sponsor of terrorism last week, warning that the United States’ “hostile policy” was closing the door to continued dialogue.
In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, an unidentified spokesperson for the North’s Foreign Ministry rejected the report, labeling it “a grave politically-motivated provocation … full of all sorts of falsity and fabrication.”
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