Pyongyang, July 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) North Korea condemned "military collusion" among the United States, Japan and South Korea, saying it undermines regional peace and stability, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday, citing the country's Ministry of National Defence.
The Trilateral Chiefs of Defence meeting of the three countries convened Wednesday in Washington showed an attempt to "attain a military superiority in the region and seek their hegemonic geopolitical interests through intensified trilateral military cooperation," a ministry spokesman said in a statement, Xinhua news agency reported
The "military collusion" is "the root cause of undermining peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region," the spokesman was quoted by the KCNA as saying.
North Korea’s armed forces will never allow an "imbalance of force" in the region as a result of the US-Japan-South Korea "military nexus," the spokesman said. The spokesman added that the country's military will "always remain faithful to the constitutional mission to neutralise the actual security challenges and potential threats and reliably defend the security of the country and the regional peace."
North Korea denounced Friday an ongoing US-led multinational military exercise taking place in Hawaii, calling it a "war rehearsal" that will trigger a "chain of countermeasures" from countries in the region.
The North's state media carried the criticism in an op-ed on the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), in which South Korea is leading the combined maritime component command this year as the first Asian country to do so, Yonhap news agency reported.
"RIMPAC is not merely a routine exercise targeting a hypothetical adversary, but a blatant war rehearsal spearheaded by the US and its followers to target regional states deemed primary obstacles to realising its Asia-Pacific strategy," the KCNA said.
"The reckless behaviour of these international hooligans is bound to trigger a chain of proportional countermeasures by regional countries to deter and manage the threat decisively," it said.
RIMPAC began on June 24 and is set to run through July 31, bringing together more than 25,000 personnel from 31 countries, including South Korea.
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Source: IANS
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