Petrol prices pumped up in Pyongyang

AFP, PYONGYANG: Petrol prices are being pumped higher in Pyongyang in the wake of United Nations sanctions restricting exports of oil products to nuclear-armed North Korea.

Retail prices have gone up around 20 per cent in two months, the news agency saw in the capital.

Earlier this month the UN Security Council imposed its eighth set of sanctions on the North following its sixth nuclear test, which Pyongyang said was a hydrogen bomb. North Korea also launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in July that appeared to bring much of the US mainland into range.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and US President Donald Trump are engaged in a war of words, heightening the tensions.

Trump dubbed Kim “Rocket Man” in a speech at the United Nations in which he threatened to “totally destroy” the North if it attacked the US or its allies.

In a statement on Friday Kim responded by calling the US head of state “mentally deranged” and a “dotard” who would “pay dearly” for his comments— triggering Trump to describe him as a “madman”.

Petrol prices pumped up in Pyongyang

AFP, PYONGYANG: Petrol prices are being pumped higher in Pyongyang in the wake of United Nations sanctions restricting exports of oil products to nuclear-armed North Korea. Retail prices have gone up around 20 per cent in two months, the news agency saw in the capital. Earlier this month the UN Security Council imposed its eighth set of sanctions on the North following its sixth nuclear test, which Pyongyang said was a hydrogen bomb. North Korea also launched two intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in July that appeared to bring much of the US mainland into range. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and US President Donald Trump are engaged in a war of words, heightening the tensions. Trump dubbed Kim Rocket Man in a speech at the United Nations in which he threatened to totally destroy the North if it attacked the US or its allies. In a statement on Friday Kim responded by calling the US head of state mentally deranged and a dotard who would pay dearly for his comments triggering Trump to describe him as a madman.