2023-04-29 12:39:10
He also added that this agreement “will only result in exposing the peace and security of Northeast Asia and the world to more serious dangers.”
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned that the United States and South Korea’s plan to strengthen the deterrence strategy against Pyongyang will result in a “more serious danger”, state media said on Saturday (29, Friday night). in Brasilia).
At a meeting of their presidents on Wednesday in Washington, the United States and South Korea warned that North Korea would face a nuclear response and the “end” of its regime if it decided to use its own arsenal.
In the so-called Washington Declaration, Joe Biden and Yoon Suk Yeol ratified US nuclear protection over South Korea and the regular deployment of US strategic assets in the region, including a nuclear ballistic submarine.
In Pyongyang’s first response to the allies’ summit in Washington, North Korean leader Kim Yo Jong’s sister said her country remains convinced that its nuclear deterrence strategy “must be further improved”.
“The more the enemies are committed to carrying out nuclear warfare exercises, and the more nuclear assets they deploy in the vicinity of the Korean peninsula, the stronger will be the exercise of our right of self-defense,” Kim’s influential sister was quoted as saying by the news agency. KCNA official news.
He also added that this agreement “will only result in exposing the peace and security of Northeast Asia and the world to more serious dangers.”
For years, North Korea has defied international sanctions to develop its nuclear and weapons program and, moreover, has warned on several occasions that it does not intend to dispose of its arsenal.
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Pyongyang has carried out a series of tests of weapons banned by those sanctions, including a solid-fuel ballistic missile that represents a major advance in its military capabilities.
In response, the United States and South Korea have increased their defense cooperation, conducting joint military exercises involving modern fighter jets and high-level strategic materiel.
– “An old man with no future” –
In his usual tone, Kim Yo Jong called Biden’s criticism of Pyongyang “ridiculous coming from a person his age” and called the 80-year-old American leader “an old man with no future”.
She also said it was “too much for him to serve his remaining two years in office” and called the South Korean president a “fool”.
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Seoul condemned Kim Yo Jong’s “insane” statement, saying it reflected “nervousness and frustration over the drastically strengthened nuclear deterrence of the US-Korea alliance”, according to the Unification Ministry.
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