SANAA, April 26 (Saba) - The North Korea's External Economic Affairs Minister Kim Yong-jae told Yonhap news agency that UN sanctions had not affected North Korea.

"Let them impose sanctions, for a hundred, or thousand years, if they wish -- we cannot care less and are barely affected by them," he added.

He stressed that the international sanctions did not affect in any way, the production of energy resources in his country and said: "Production of energy and electricity, rose from last year."

The United States should reconsider its strategy in the negotiations on nuclear disarmament on the Korean Peninsula, he said.

"These people have to give up what they are doing now and they have to change their way of dealing," he said.

The North Korean minister accused South Korean authorities of failing to abide by the inter-Korean military agreement because of its resumption of military exercises with the US military.

Source: Interfax


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