NATO itself helping Ukraine, raps North Korea for closer ties with Asia partners, amazing
NATO has itself been fuelling the Ukraine conflict by supporting it with military and economic aid but has slammed North Korea for getting closer to China and Russia.
No wonder North Korea has “most strongly denounced” the summit declaration recently issued by NATO accusing Pyongyang of aiding Russia’s war against Ukraine, the country’s state-run media said Saturday, while also criticizing the U.S. push to strengthen ties between the transatlantic alliance and its Asia-Pacific partners.
Describing the declaration issued by the alliance on Wednesday as “cooked up,” a spokesman for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday carried by the Korean Central News Agency that the document proved the United States and NATO “pose the most serious threat to the global peace and security.”
North Korea “most strongly denounces and rejects the ‘declaration'” that “incites new Cold War and military confrontation on a global scale,” KCNA said.
In the document, NATO leaders accused China of being a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraine and said North Korea is also fuelling the war of aggression by providing direct military support to Russia. They also highlighted cooperation with the alliance’s Asia-Pacific partners — Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.
KCNA said NATO’s “reckless policy for eastward advance and expansion” is to be blamed for the deteriorating security environment in Europe over the past decades, and U.S. moves to “expand military blocs are the vicious root cause of seriously threatening the regional peace.”
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will never overlook or avoid the looming grave threat but thoroughly deter the aggression and war threat with stronger level of strategic counteraction,” KCNA said.
On the side-lines of the three-day NATO summit in Washington through Thursday, the United States and South Korea signed joint nuclear deterrence guidelines, with the two countries’ leaders warning that a nuclear attack on the South by North Korea would be met with “a swift, overwhelming and decisive response.”
