GENEVA: North Korea told a United Nations disarmament forum on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) that sanctions over its nuclear program would “never work,” as it voiced further defiance against President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign.

The “US should [be] aware that sanctions and pressure will never threaten [North Korea] and never work,” said Han Tae Song, Pyongyang’s envoy to the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

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