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Juneau resident Shelby Surdyk recently attended a nuclear nonproliferation conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York. For next year, she’s helping to organize a youth conference in Sitka.

The president’s remarks, made during a meeting while he is on a “working vacation” in New Jersey, follow similar remarks by North Korea a day earlier.

North Korea is blaming the United States and threatening “something thousands of times worse” in response to a package of sanctions that the U.N. Security Council passed unanimously over the weekend.