Pyongyang warns U.S. of stronger counteractions against anti-DPRK policy

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday warned the United States of stronger counteractions to shatter its anti-Pyongyang campaigns, saying that it is no longer willing to "sit at the negotiating table" with Washington.

"Now that the brigandish U.S. imperialists' hostile policy toward the DPRK is getting extremely ferocious, the army and the people of the DPRK will take stronger counteractions of justice to shatter it," said a statement issued by the National Defense Commission (NDC), the country's top military body.

The counteractions "will be focused on inflicting the bitterest disasters upon the United States of America," it added.

The DPRK accused the United States of imposing new sanctions on Pyongyang over an alleged cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment and continuing to conduct war games with South Korea.

It also criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for his remarks in a recent interview that the DPRK government is likely to collapse.

The NDC said Pyongyang will fight with conventional forces if the United States wages a conventional war on the DPRK and with nuclear strike means if it launches a nuclear war.

If the United States ignites a cyber war, it said, the DPRK will retaliate with a similar warfare.

"It is the decision of the army and the people of the DPRK that they no longer have the need or willingness to sit at the negotiating table with the United States", which seeks to bring down the DPRK's social system and stamp out its ideology, the statement said. Endi