North korea: North Korea on Thursday denounced U.S. sanctions on Pyongyang over cybercrime-related money laundering, vowing to respond in a corresponding manner. According to Yonhap News Agency, the North's reaction came as the U.S. announced Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions on eight North Korean individuals and two entities for their involvement in laundering money stolen through illicit cyber activities. Kim Un-chol, North Korea's vice foreign minister in charge of U.S. affairs, said in a statement that Washington's latest sanctions demonstrate its hostile policy toward the North. "As the current U.S. administration has laid out its stance that it will be hostile to us to the end, we will also respond to them with patience and in a corresponding manner," read the statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency.