The North's mission claimed that it's nonsense to sanction restaurant businesses run by the North, arguing that such sanctions amount to viewing ordinary restaurants as plants of nuclear weapons and missiles.
Last month the USA sent a naval strike group into West Pacific near the Korean Peninsula, hoping to deter the North from conducting another missile or nuclear test.
"On May 4, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted the 'Korea Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act, ' a measure we strongly condemn and totally reject", the statement read. But it's rare to hear such direct protests from North Korea to the U.S. Congress.
On Friday, its Central Public Prosecutor's Office issued a statement suggesting the United States and South Korea are harbouring suspects and should extradite them to the North immediately.
"As the US House of Representatives enacts more and more of these reckless hostile laws, the DPRK's efforts to strengthen nuclear deterrents will gather greater pace, beyond anyone's imagination", the committee said, referring to North Korea by the initials of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Nixon, the former analyst, said he also expects significant cooperation with South Korean intelligence services going forward. Trump warned of "major conflict" with North Korea after the tests.
"It is the regime of Kim Jong Un that should rethink its risky nuclear weapons tests, ballistic missile tests, abhorrent human rights record, and state support for terrorism".
Tensions in the region have intensified as Western powers continue to threaten North Korea for developing defensive nuclear and missile technology.
But he said Friday's protest was also notable in that it was sent by the recently revived parliamentary foreign affairs committee, which was discontinued by Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, in 1998.
The U.S. Senate would need to approve the new sanctions next, before they could be implemented. As a result, the UN Security Council led by the United States has tightened the sanctions regime against North Korea. Last week, it accused the CIA and South Korea's intelligence agency of botching a plot to kill dictator Kim Jong Un.
The bipartisan House bill bars ships owned by North Korea or by countries that refuse to implement United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang from operating in US waters or docking at USA ports.
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