North Korea has said it will take "corresponding action" if the United States does not lift its financial sanctions on the country following the recent agreement on ending the international dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear programme, according to dpa. North Korea "cannot but take corresponding actions if the US does not fully lift the sanctions," news agency Yonhap quoted North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan as saying in Beijing on Saturday. Kim reiterated Pyongyang's insistence that Washington lift all sanctions againt the Banco Delta Asia bank in Macau, where numerous North Korean accounts have been frozen since September 2005 after the US alleged they were being used for the proceeds of North Korean counterfeiting and money laundering.
