North Korea has sent a 9-page letter to the US demanding that it stops sending ‘hostile nuclear threats’ to the secretive state.
Seen by many as a direct message to President-elect Donald Trump, the letter outlines what the North expects from America.
The statement has laid down what it wants from the incoming US administration.
It also accused Mr Obama of “constantly heaping malicious slander and criticism on the DPRK” and said his government pursued an “aggressive and heinous ‘strategic suffocation’ policy”.
“The anachronistic hostile policy and nuclear threat that the U.S. has enforced with unprecedented recklessness against the DPRK (North Korea) have only provoked its just and righteous countermeasures for self-defense.
South Korea’s foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck said: “Following the U.S.’ recent presidential election, North Korea has attempted to indirectly put pressure on the incoming U.S. administration to alter its policy.
“This time the country seems to be testing the U.S. side in the form of the foreign ministry memorandum ahead of the launch of the new Trump administration.”
