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DPRK

US slammed over seizure of package

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea condemned on Sunday the US security services for seizing a diplomatic package from its delegation at an airport in New York on Friday. The Foreign Ministry said its delegation was "literally mugged at the John F.Kennedy International Airport by the US authorities" when it was about to board a flight home after attending a conference at the UN headquarters. A group of more than 20 people including those who claimed to be from the US Department of Homeland Security and police officers "forcibly took away a diplomatic package from the delegation," the ministry said.