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FFM112 - 20020823 - VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIAN FEDERATION : (FILES) The leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il during talks with the Russian President (not pictured) in Vladivostok, 23 August 2002. North Korea said Tuesday, 07 January 2003, that the United States had embarked on a strategy of using sanctions to isolate Pyongyang and this represented a declaration of war. 'Sanctions mean a war and the war knows no mercy. The US should opt for dialogue with the DPRK (North Korea), not for war, clearly aware that it will have to pay a very high price for such reckless acts', the official Korean Central News Agency said. EPA PHOTO EPA FILES SERGEI CHIRIKOV