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By: The opinion Posted Mar 05, 2023, 11:39 am EST
North Korea urged the UN on Sunday to call for the cessation of joint exercises between the United States and South Korea.r, that they are “heating up” the tension, a request that, he said, would be “a first step to promote sustainable détente.”
In a statement published today by the state news agency KCNA, the Vice Minister for International Organizations of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, Kim Son-gyong, accused Seoul and Washington of handling the situation on the Korean peninsula.at an extremely dangerous level through threatening rhetoric and military demonstrations against the DPRK“.
DPRK stands for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea.
The US and South Korea conducted their fourth air exercises this year on Friday.in which they deployed an American B-1 strategic bomber and South Korean fighter jets, the latest in a series of deployments and exercises that allied forces have been carrying out in 2023.
The allies are also preparing to carry out large-scale maneuvers for more than ten days from the 13th, to which the North Korean regime usually responds with weapons tests, considering them a threat to its sovereignty.
Pyongyang criticized the UN for “always remaining silent” in the face of the military demonstrations in Washington and Seoulin which “they even speak of the ‘end’ of a sovereign state”, while describing Pyongyang’s responses as “provocations and threats”.
“The frequent joint maneuvers of the US and South Korea, with an unrealistic and extremely dangerous purpose of ‘putting an end to the regime’ of a sovereign State (…) are vivid evidence that helps to clearly understand why the circle Vicious tension has lasted on the Korean peninsula,” added the vice minister.
If the UN is truly interested in ensuring peace and security, says the North, “it should no longer tolerate anti-peace actions by the US and South Korea, which incite reckless confrontation of force and hostile conflict”.
The official pointed out thatthe situation on the korean peninsula and the region is taking a very worrying turn that nobody wants” and urged the international community to request the “immediate” suspension of the maneuvers as “a first step to promote the sustainable détente (…) that it so longs for” in the region.
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