The Korean peninsula is on the brink of nuclear war

The Korean peninsula “is on the brink of nuclear war,” warns Pyongyang at the United Nations

From Le Figaro with AFP

Published 52 minutes ago, updated 16 minutes ago

The President of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. SPUTNIK / Portal

North Korea’s representative to the United Nations condemned the United States’ “reckless actions” that would bring the Korean peninsula to the “brink of nuclear war.”

North Korea’s representative to the United Nations warned Tuesday that the Korean peninsula is “on the brink of nuclear war,” particularly because of U.S. “reckless actions.” The “reckless” actions and the “continued hysteria of the United States and its allies regarding nuclear confrontation… are pushing the Korean peninsula into a military situation on the brink of nuclear war,” Pyongyang’s ambassador to the United Nations, Kim Song, warned in a statement Speech to the General Assembly.

“Scourge”

The representative of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea, attacked Washington’s policies in Northeast Asia, denouncing a “current, dangerous situation that is the work of the United States, which wants to perfect its hegemonic ambitions.” overestimate their power.

For the representative of the communist regime of Kim Jong-un, “the responsibility also lies with the leading forces of the Republic of Korea” (South Korea, editor’s note) who are trying to impose the scourge of nuclear war on (our) nation.” Seoul was “obsessed with voluntary submission to the United States and with fratricidal confrontation,” the North Korean diplomat concluded.

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