US sanctions threaten denuclearization, warns Pyongyang

North Korea has denounced the new sanctions imposed against it by the United States, accused of wanting to "block forever" the denuclearization of the peninsula.

The United States has just sanctioned three North Korean leaders, including one of the highest ranking officials of the regime ranked by US diplomacy among "the worst in the world" for human rights.

These measures, essentially symbolic because the recluse regime is already subject to multiple international sanctions, are being taken while nuclear negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington are again at a standstill.

US President Donald Trump, however, continues to discuss a new tete-a-tete with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for early 2019, after their historic Singapore summit in June.