North Korea said on Saturday that Pyongyang would not maintain an attachment to seeking the lifting of the currently imposed international sanctions and instead overcome hurdles through a self-reliant approach.

The Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling party, reported that having an illusion of establishing peace with enemies will lead to self-destruction, and added the country will not have a lingering attachment to easing sanctions, Yonhap News Agency reported.

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North Korea also claimed that it does not believe that Washington will ever leave Pyongyang in peace, adding that the US will not change its imperialist nature.

Pyongyang would make efforts to find ways to incapacitate such sanctions, rather than waiting for their abolishment, the newspaper further added.

Earlier this week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a four-day plenary meeting of the Workers’ Party Central Committee and discussed policy directions on key domestic and diplomatic issues.

In August, during the 10-day training, North Korea raised tensions with its own missile and other weapons tests. But North Korea’s typical harsh rhetoric over the drills largely focused on South Korea, not the United States, in a suggestion that it’s still interested in resuming nuclear talks with the US.

President Donald Trump said recently that he received a “beautiful” three-page letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Trump further said that Kim wanted to meet again to restart the talks after the US-South Korean drills ended and that Kim offered him “a small apology” over a series of weapons tests.

The two leaders met again in late February in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, but the second DPRK-US summit ended without any agreement. Under the Singapore deal, Kim and Trump agreed to the complete denuclearisation of and the peace settlement in the peninsula.

The DPRK criticised the South Korea-US joint military drills as a rehearsal for a northward invasion, test-firing short-range projectiles into the East Sea before and during the drills to protest against it.