By DSGC Staff
Barely
days after North Korea warned of horrible disaster in light of Japan and South
Korea joint naval exercise with the US, today the republic issued a
fresh warning of an "all-out war", urging the United States to stop
military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail".
In a statement released by the
republic’s National Defence Commission (NDC), the US government must withdraw its policy of
hostility against the North if it wants peace on both the Korean peninsula and
the "US mainland". In a statement carried by the North's official
state media on Saturday, the National Defence Commission spokesman said the
U.S. should stop sanctions meant to punish its February nuclear test and
provocations including military exercises on the Korean Peninsula.
"(The United States) must
bear it in mind that reckless provocative acts would meet our retaliatory
strikes and lead to an all-out war of justice for a final showdown with the
United States," a spokesman of the NDC was quoted as saying in a statement
carried by Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency.
"We emphasise again that
the United States must withdraw various measures aimed to isolate and
strangulate us. Dependent upon this are... peace and security, not only on the
Korean peninsula but the US mainland as well."
North Korea refused to sign a
non-aggression pact that John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, offered last
week on condition of denuclearisation. The statement follows North Korea strong
criticism towards the joint two-day naval drills among the U.S., South Korea
and Japan, which the allies said were aimed at improving readiness to maritime
disasters. North Korea called the drills as a military confrontation, saying it
is ready to foil any enemy provocation.
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