North Korea denounces IAEA as ‘paid trumpeter’ for Washington

North Korea has vehemently denounced the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog for “cooking up” a resolution against Pyongyang’s nuclear program, saying it will never tolerate any acts of infringement upon its sovereignty.

The strongly-worded rebuke came after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution on Friday, urging North Korea to suspend its nuclear weapons program and heed the UN Security Council’s resolutions.

Reacting to the measure early Monday, a spokesman for Pyongyang’s Ministry of Nuclear Power Industry vowed, “As long as tyrannical nuclear weapons of the US and imperialist aggression forces exist on this land, the DPRK’s position as a nuclear-weapon state will remain unchanged and the DPRK will never tolerate the hostile forces’ acts of infringing upon its sovereignty.”

The unnamed spokesman was using the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.