The North Korean and Cuban foreign ministers “strongly rejected” the Trump administration’s recent redesignation of Pyongyang as a state sponsor of terrorism (SSOT) at a bilateral meeting this week, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday.

The DPRK government delegation, headed by foreign minister Ri Yong Ho, departed last week to Cuba for a state visit.

Ri and Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla held a bilateral meeting on Wednesday at the foreign ministry in Havana.

“Both sides strongly reject the U.S.’s authoritarian action of redesignating the DPRK as a ‘state sponsor of terrorism’ as the