“We are certainly concerned by North Korea’s bellicose rhetoric,” Obama spokesman Jay Carney told reporters at the White House|Treasury also made the same designation, against Paek Se-Bong, the chairman of North Korea’s Second Economic Committee, which oversees production of North Korea’s ballistic missiles|Anti-war demonstrators turned out near the U.S|The DPRK will achieve nothing by threats or provocation, which will only further isolate North Korea and undermine international efforts to ensure peace and stability in northeast Asia.” The Treasury Department announced Monday that it was designating North Korea’s primary exchange bank, the Foreign Trade Bank, as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction|North Korea wants a formal peace treaty, security guarantees and other concessions, as well as the removal of 28,500 U.S|Obama National Security adviser Tom Donilon told a meeting of the Asia Society in New York that Pyongyang’s claims may be “hyperbolic.” He said the United States will protect its allies|12 nuclear test}