N Korea blames US for growing hostilities; ‘vicious cycle of confrontation’
In direct proportion to the increase of the hostile policy and military blackmail by the United States against us, our strength is bound to grow continuously to contain them,” said Kim.
In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, North Korea’s U.N. ambassador said the security environment on the Korean Peninsula is caught in a “vicious cycle of tensions and confrontation.”
Kim Song blamed the “growing hostility” in the region on United States aggression. “In direct proportion to the increase of the hostile policy and military blackmail by the United States against us, our strength is bound to grow continuously to contain them,” said Kim.
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Sunday toward its eastern seas, extending a provocative streak in weapons testing as a U.S. aircraft carrier visits South Korea for joint military exercises in response to the North’s growing nuclear threat. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile launched from the western inland town of Taechon flew 600 kilometers (370 miles) cross-country on a maximum altitude of 60 kilometers (37 miles) before landing in waters off North Korea’s eastern coast.
South Korea’s presidential office said National Security Director Kim Sung-han called an emergency National Security Council meeting where members denounced the launch as a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and accused the North of raising tensions in the region. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said the launch did not pose an “immediate threat to U.S. personnel or territory, or to our allies,” but still highlighted the destabilizing impact of North Korea’s illicit nuclear weapons and missile programs.
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The launch came as the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group arrived in South Korea for the two countries joint military exercises that aim to show their strength against growing North Korean threats. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said its nuclear envoy Kim Gunn held telephone calls with Sung Kim, U.S.
President Joe Biden’s special representative for North Korea, and Funakoshi Takehiro, director-general for Asian and Oceanian affairs at Japan’s Foreign Ministry, to discuss trilateral cooperation in face of North Korean threats. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in a statement Tokyo is “doing its utmost” to gather information on North Korea’s launch and confirm the safety of ships and aircraft, although there were no immediate reports of damages.
