N. Korea lashes US over terrorist label
( 2001-05-03 15:05) (7)
North Korea on Thursday accused Washington of trying to isolate it after the US State Department kept the state on its list of countries that sponsor terrorism.
The United States on Monday published its annual blacklist of countries it accuses of sponsoring terrorism, one that hasn't changed in eight years and includes North Korea and six other countries.
"This is a provocative criminal move of the Bush administration to internationally isolate the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), pursuant to its undisguised hostile policy towards the DPRK," the official Korean Central News Agency said in a commentary monitored in Seoul.
"The DPRK has clarified more than once its principle and stand on opposing all forms of terrorism and has put them into practice," KCNA said.
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