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North Korea condemns new US nuclear strategic plan

Saturday, 24 August 2024 10:28 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 24 August 2024 10:28 AM ]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (L) inspects missile launcher vehicles at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo by AFP)

North Korea has condemned the United States’ newly devised nuclear plan, vowing to deal with any kind of fresh threat posed by the Americans.

“We will resolutely cope with any type of nuclear threat posed by the US,” the spokesperson for the foreign ministry of North Korea, also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), said in a press statement released on Saturday and published by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

“The DPRK Foreign Ministry expresses serious concern over and bitterly denounces and rejects the behavior of the US which is pursuing the unilateral nuclear edge while going against the desire of the international community for global peace, stability and detente by continuously fabricating someone’s ‘nuclear threat,’” it said.

The statement came after the New York Times reported this week that the United States had revised its own nuclear strategic plan.

The New York Times report said the US plan approved by President Joe Biden in March was to prepare for possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea.

The Times said the plan reorients Washington’s strategy for the first time to focus on China’s rapid expansion of its nuclear arsenal.

Since 2006, North Korea has been under crippling sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council over its nuclear capabilities.

In past years, Russia and China have made efforts to ease the sanctions slapped on Pyongyang.

At the same time, North Korea has pursued its own arms development plans, testing new weapons and ammunition designed to act as a deterrent and defend the country against foreign aggression.

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Russia in late March vetoed a vote extending the mandate of the committee responsible for sanctions monitoring.

North Korea, which has declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear weapons power, has for decades been a close ally to both China and Russia and shares mutual defense treaties with both countries.

China, in particular, has many similarities with North Korea and is its main trade partner.

In regard to the war between Ukraine and Russia, NATO countries see China as a “decisive enabler” while voicing concerns about Pyongyang’s aid to Moscow.

Pyongyang has been accused by the US of providing ammunition and missiles to Moscow, with North Korea rejecting the allegation as “absurd”.

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