SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea stated on Saturday it “most strongly denounces” a NATO declaration accusing Pyongyang of serving to Russia’s warfare towards Ukraine and U.S. efforts to broaden its alliances with the bloc and Asian international locations.
NATO leaders on Wednesday accused North Korea and Iran of fuelling Russia’s warfare by offering direct army assist to Moscow. The summit additionally confused a membership pledge for Kyiv and took a stronger stance on China’s assist for Moscow.
“The ‘Washington Summit Declaration,’ cooked up and made public on July 10, goes to prove that the U.S. and NATO, reduced to a tool for its confrontation, pose the most serious threat to the global peace and security,” North Korea’s state media KCNA quoted a overseas ministry spokesperson as saying.
It stated the U.S. strikes to broaden army blocs with NATO international locations and Asian companions, together with South Korea and Japan have been “the vicious root cause of seriously threatening the regional peace, extremely exacerbating the international security environment and sparking off worldwide arms race.”
On the sidelines of the summit, South Korea and america signed tips on establishing an built-in system of prolonged deterrence for the Korean peninsula to counter nuclear and army threats from North Korea.
North Korea’s defence ministry criticised these tips as “reckless provocation” making Pyongyang improve its personal nuclear deterrence functionality.
“It would be incomprehensible for anyone to imagine the price that will be paid if this warning is ignored,” the ministry stated in a press release.
