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N. Korea slams World Economic Forum for revoking invitation

January 14, 2016

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday criticized organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos for revoking an invitation to its delegation in the wake of a nuclear test.

The WEF sent an invitation to North Korea last autumn but withdrew it after Pyongyang defiantly conducted what it called a hydrogen bomb test last week.

There is widespread skepticism over whether the blast was truly an H-bomb test, but world powers are looking for ways to punish the North. The test, even if not a hydrogen bomb, will still likely push the country closer toward a fully functional nuclear arsenal.

North Korea’s ambassador in Geneva wrote in a letter to the World Economic Forum that the decision to revoke the invitation was “based on unjust political motivation.”