2023-11-13 00:42:31
North Korea is pushing for the dissolution of the US-led UN command overseeing the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea. The government in Pyongyang described the multinational force as an “illegal war organization,” state news agency KCNA reported on Sunday. The two Koreas are still formally at war. The UN mission monitors the ceasefire between Seoul and Pyongyang that was signed 70 years ago.
The criticism from North Korea comes a day following US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met his South Korean counterpart Shin Won-sik and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara for a trilateral meeting in Seoul on Sunday. They agreed to establish real-time data exchange on North Korean missile launches as planned in December and at the meeting condemned increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia as a violation of UN resolutions.
According to the Defense Ministry, South Korean and U.S. defense chiefs and members of the U.N. command will meet in Seoul on Tuesday to call on North Korea to stop its “illegal activities” and implement U.N. security resolutions.
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