24 July 2017

News Story: N. Korea lambastes S. Korea's parliament for resolution against ICBM

North Korea's Hwasong-14 Ballistic Missile July-4-2017
SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) -- North Korea warned Saturday South Korea's lawmakers will pay a "harsh price" for adopting a resolution against its recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test.

What the South's National Assembly has done so far is only raising the mood of inter-Korean hostility in the country's community, doing nothing to help promote unity, reconciliation and unification, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, the communist nation's official mouthpiece, claimed.

It will "pay a price in the harshest way for daring to challenge our loft system and self-defense measure," it added without elaborating.

Earlier this week, the South's parliament passed the resolution condemning the North for its July 4 launch of an ICBM. Pyongyang announced that the test was successful.

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