Pyongyang is considering “an operation to liberate the whole of South Korea, including Seoul and carry out pre-emptive strike on the enemy troops that participate in these exercises” – wrote KCNA.
North Korea. test new nuclear warheads
In response to a statement by the Foreign Ministry of South Korea urged the North Korean authorities to stop threats and provocation.
Since the beginning of the US-Korean exercises, which this year are conducted on an extremely large scale, North Korea threatened almost daily Seulowi preventive nuclear attacks.
tension on the Korean Peninsula has not decreased since the hydrogen bomb test conducted by Pyongyang in early January, as the UN Security Council responded to the tightening of sanctions against the country. In February, North Korea launched a long-range ballistic missile, which is placed in Earth orbit satellite. According to Seoul, Pyongyang also fired at the beginning of March from its east coast several short-range missiles toward the Sea of Japan.
UN resolutions prohibit North Korea’s nuclear tests and ballistic testing. Ignoring these prohibitions, Pyongyang, the most isolated country in the world, does not cease in its efforts to increase its military capabilities, including nuclear.
A purely defensive character?
Meanwhile, the US fend off criticism of Russia and China on the deployment of US missile defense system in South Korea. – The final decision on the matter has not yet been taken – said on Friday, State Department spokesman John Kirby.
Kirby added that China and Russia have no reason for concern, because this action would follow a “purely defensive”.
Talking about deployment in South Korea advanced missile defense system the United States, the so-called. system THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence), began in early February.
The increasingly tense situation in the Korean Peninsula
On Friday, foreign ministers of Russia and China, Sergei Lavrov and Wang Yi, during a joint press conference, objected to plans to deploy a missile defense system the United States in South Korea.
– We believe that a direct harm to the interests of the strategic security of China and Russia – said Wang. In its assessment of such plans go beyond the boundaries of the real needs of security on the Korean peninsula.
Lavrov said that plans are exceeding in scale all the alleged threat from North Korea. He compared them to the plans to deploy US missile defense in Europe, and added: “on both directions will demonstrate that the plans of this kind, threatening violation of parity and global strategic stability, are absolutely unfounded.”
IAR, PAP, kh
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