The North Korean foreign ministry’s Institute for Disarmament and Peace condemned a recent U.S. government description of the DPRK as a “rogue state” in a statement made Wednesday evening, warning of “countermeasures” against what it claimed is an increasingly hostile stance from Washington.

In comments carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the President of the Institute for Disarmament and Peace was reported to have responded to a question by a reporter about the U.S. Department of Defense’s (D0D) recent “2019 India-Pacific Strategy Report.”

That report, released on June 1, described the DPRK as a “rogue state,” and warned that