A spokesperson of the North Korean International Ministry issued an announcement denouncing america’ strikes to “demonize” the North.
“The military and political situation on the Korean Peninsula and in the region has reached an extreme red-line due to the reckless military confrontational maneuvers and hostile acts of the U.S. and its vassal forces,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement published by the North’s state-controlled media, Korean Central Information Company (KCNA), on Thursday.
The assertion was printed two days after U.S. Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin had conferences with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Protection Minister Lee Jong-sup in Seoul.
Accusing america of demonizing North Korea, the spokesperson additionally stated that Washington “is intensifying the full-scale offensive of putting pressure on DPRK in all aspects including ‘human rights,’ sanctions and military affairs.” (DPRK is an acronym of the North’s official identify: Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea.)
Final week, U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Julie Turner as particular envoy on North Korean human rights points – a put up that had remained vacant for six years. Each then-U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in didn’t appoint representatives to deal with the North’s dire human rights points, preferring to give attention to their initiatives to denuclearize North Korea whereas they had been in workplace. Now, Seoul and Washington will seemingly increase their voices on the North’s human rights points, as each the Biden and Yoon administrations have appointed particular envoys to focus on probably the most delicate points for North Korea.
Regardless of plentiful proof stating extreme human rights violations inside probably the most remoted international locations on this planet, Pyongyang has denied the accusations whereas demanding that exterior international locations not violate its sovereignty. Given the issue in accessing goal info on human rights points in North Korea, there have been considerations over the lives of peculiar North Koreans, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in late 2019.
In his go to to Seoul, Austin reassured that america would make its full dedication to the protection of South Korea via deploying U.S. strategic belongings akin to its fifth-generation F-22 and F-35 fighter jets, and scaling up the mixed army drills with South Korea. As joint army workouts are one of many “hostile policies” North Korea has demanded america to withdraw, the North Korean International Ministry spokesperson heralded Pyongyang’s future actions in opposition to the U.S. and the South’s army strikes.
“First, the DPRK will take the toughest reaction to any military attempt of the U.S. on the principle of ‘nuke for nuke and an all-out confrontation for an all-out confrontation!’” the spokesperson stated. That is an old-school coverage of North Korea linked with its “strength to strength” technique towards america and South Korea. Whereas displaying off its “counteraction strategy” ready for “any short- and long-term scenario attempted by the U.S. and its vassal forces,” the spokesperson additionally stated that the North will make “clearer” deterrence measures “if the U.S. continues to introduce strategic assets into the Korean Peninsula.”
The measures North Korea will seemingly make within the upcoming months embrace assessments of a solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), army reconnaissance satellite tv for pc, and different superior long-range ballistic missiles, akin to a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). As Kim Jong Un has vowed not to surrender his nuclear weapons in any circumstances, Pyongyang will ramp up its efforts to develop extra highly effective long-range nuclear weapons, fairly than launching excessive numbers of short-range ballistic missiles because it did final 12 months.
After making clear its deterrence capabilities over the U.S. army strikes within the area, the spokesperson additionally stated that Pyongyang will not be desirous about any dialogue with Washington.
“Second, the DPRK is not interested in any contact or dialogue with the U.S. as long as it pursues its hostile policy and confrontational line,” the spokesperson stated. Washington has made clear that it “harbors no hostile intent” towards Pyongyang and repeatedly urged it to return to the negotiating desk with “no preconditions” because the Biden administration accomplished its coverage evaluation on North Korea in April 2021. Pyongyang views the references to dialogue as a “shameless” effort to realize time whereas “pursuing the most heinous hostile policy towards the DPRK.”
For Pyongyang, the devastating financial sanctions and in depth joint army drills between the South and america are clear proof of their so-called hostile intent. The spokesperson implied that the U.S. coverage on North Korea centered on the entire, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) of the nation is a unilateral and unfair supply that will have Pyongyang disarm itself whereas the U.S. “pursues the military expansion” with its allies. Reiterating the need of growing weapons to confront the U.S. within the area, the spokesperson added that the nation’s deterrence measures will stay till the threats from the U.S. and its allies within the area “have been definitely rooted out.”
“The more dangerous the U.S. threat to the DPRK gets, the stronger backfire the U.S. will face in direct proportion to it,” the spokesperson stated.
Based on the South’s Protection Ministry, mixed air drills between the South Korean and U.S. militaries had been performed on Wednesday. U.S. B-1B strategic bombers and F-22 and F-35B stealth fighters had been mobilized with the South’s F-35A fighter jets in the course of the drills. As Seoul and Washington on one hand, and Pyongyang on the opposite, vow to strengthen deterrence capabilities in opposition to one another, their “tit-for-tat” measures will seemingly be in depth – which might destabilize the area additional.
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