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North Korea protests NATO’s ‘Korea, US, Japan-North Korea nuclear cooperation’… “Increasing the urgency of strengthening national defense”

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answers a question from a reporter from the Korean Central News Agency

Leaders of Korea, U.S., and Japan gathered in one place

(Madrid = Yonhap News) Reporter Seong-gon Seo = President Yoon Seok-yeol holds a summit meeting between the US and Japan at the IFEMA Convention Center in Madrid, Spain on the 29th. From left, President Yun, US President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. 2022.6.29 seephoto@yna.co.kr

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Soo-yoon = North Korea strongly objected to the decision of the leaders of the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan to strengthen cooperation in response to the North Korean nuclear issue in the wake of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit on the 29th (local time) of last month.

According to the Korean Central News Agency on the 3rd, a spokesperson for the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to a reporter’s question the day before, saying, “During the NATO summit meeting not long ago, the officials of the United States, Japan, and South Korea held a mock board for confrontation with the Republic of Korea and blindly exercised our right to self-defense. “We discussed dangerous joint military countermeasures targeting us, including the issue of conducting a three-party joint military exercise,” he said.

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “Through this NATO summit, the United States is pursuing an attempt to simultaneously deter and encircle Russia and China by realizing the militarization of Europe and NATO in the Asia-Pacific region. It has become clearer that we are using it as an important means for

He emphasized, “The created situation adds to the urgency of strengthening the national defense capability to actively respond to the rapid deterioration of the Korean peninsula and the international security environment.”
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will reliably defend its sovereignty, national interest and territory against all kinds of threats arising from the hostile acts of the United States and its followers, and will take responsibility for ensuring the peace and security of the Korean peninsula and the region,” he said. We will fulfill our mission,” he said.

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