North Korea accuses the United States and South Korea of extortion
He The North Korean government criticized the joint military exercises by the United States and North Korea this Fridayand claimed that these countries’ maneuvers in the region were blackmail against Pyongyang.
“The bombers, loaded with long-range air-to-surface missiles, received unprecedented media coverage Intensifying the nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK (DPRK),” read a statement collected by agency KCNA.
North Korean authorities have denounced the increasing frequency Allied countries maneuvers in the regionand noted that “US imperialists and South Korean puppet warmongers continue to conduct war exercises against the DPRK under various aliases, seriously disrupting the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula.”
“The war exercises were carried out simultaneously in the air and at sea from April 17 to 28, with the participation of large strategic forces the biggest increase ever in the first half of this year, further exacerbating the situation in the Korean Peninsula and in the region,” the letter continued, after a series of drills were listed prior to that date.
“By employing any type of airborne weapon large enough to wage war, the US imperialists and South Korean puppet forces can achieve their goals organized the so-called ‘Combined Joint Training Exercise’.” They added, arguing that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his cabinet are “bluffing under the war scenario concocted by Washington.”
Pyongyang also assured that it “closely monitors any military movement by enemy forces that completely destroys and endangers the security environment.” At the same time, they pointed this out “It is a sovereign country’s legitimate right to arm itself with means of self-defense more efficient to deal with the prevailing dire situation and potential threats.”