Britain has left Pyongyang fuming by including a children’s camp in North Korea in a raft of sanctions against Russia. The facility is accused of supporting Moscow’s forced deportation and reeducation of young Ukrainians.
The British government announced the sanctions on Monday. The list includes the Songdowon International Children’s Camp in eastern North Korea.
Pyongyang responded with a statement carried by state media on Friday. A foreign ministry spokesperson accuses Britain of “unreasonably associating our children’s camping facility with the groundless issue of forcible displacement of Ukrainian children.”
The spokesperson also says the British government will be held accountable for its “grave hostility toward our state.”
Britain plans to help identify and return more than 20,000 Ukrainian children it says have been forcibly taken away to Russia and other locations during the invasion of Ukraine.