Pyongyang: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) criticized a recent agreement reached between the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) to bolster the deployment of American strategic assets in the region for escalating tensions to the “brink of a nuclear war,” state media KCNA said on Monday.
U.S. President Joe Biden and ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol held a summit last week, during which Biden pledged to give Seoul more insight into its nuclear planning over any conflict with the DPRK.
Both leaders agreed to strengthen ROK’s defenses and regularly deploy U.S. strategic assets on the Korean Peninsula. As part of the efforts, a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine will visit the ROK for the first time since the 1980s.
KCNA said the agreement stipulated the allies’ willingness to take “the most hostile and aggressive action” against the DPRK, citing Choe Ju Hyon, whom it described as an international security analyst.
The stationing of American strategic assets has placed the situation of the Korean Peninsula in a “quagmire of instability,” and was intended to build “aggressive and exclusive military blocs” in the region, it said.
“It is just aimed to dodge the responsibility for the worst-ever nuclear-related crimes it has committed by systematically destroying and violating the nuclear non-proliferation system, and in particular, pushing the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war,” KCNA said.
–The Daily Mail-CGTN news exchange item
