PYONGYANG, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has slammed the United States for orchestrating efforts to tighten financial sanctions against Pyongyang.
At a plenary meeting of the International Financial Supervisory Body held in Paris in February, the U.S.-led hostile forces "again staged a farce of re-listing the DPRK as a target of 'countermeasure' for blocking its financial transactions with other countries," the Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry as saying on Thursday.
"They pressurized the Society for World Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) headquartered in Belgium into terminating its financial communication services to the banks of the DPRK," said the spokesman.
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