North Korea accuses Washington of threatening its sovereignty and security this year “with more persistence than ever before” and that the gravity of these hostile acts “has reached a threshold of tension that can no longer be tolerated.”
A South Korean channel will broadcast a military parade in Pyongyang on February 8, 2023, during which its ICBMs will be on display.
North Korea’s foreign ministry’s Institute for North American Affairs (IAN) has denounced that “US warlike movements, military tensions in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia have led to a highly unstable situation looming in the US.” on the brink of nuclear war. These warnings were published in a recent IAN report quoted by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) this Monday.
The document lists US interventions in the politics of the region, as well as its interactions with South Korea’s “puppet regime,” and compares current military tensions in the region to the situation before the Korean War broke out in 1950.
In addition, the IAN report noted that “this year the US has engaged in more worrying hostile acts intentionally encroaching on the sovereignty and security of the DPRK than ever before, and the severity and danger of which have reached a threshold.” will no longer be tolerated”.
Given this situation, the North Korean side warned that a war on the peninsula “would rapidly escalate into a world war and a thermonuclear war unprecedented in the world.” Such a conflict would have “the most catastrophic and irreversible consequences” for peace and security in the region and in the rest of the world, it said.
In this regard, Pyongyang has said that it will further accelerate its efforts to strengthen “its self-defense capabilities to safeguard its sovereignty, dignity and security, and to preserve peace and stability in the region,” provided Washington does not comply with the exercise of its “anachronistic policy of hostility.” “ stop. and withdraw its “continued military threats” against North Korea.