TIL Desk/World/Pyongyang/ North Korea has warned that “dangerous and unusual military moves” by South Korea and the US would trigger a new cold war on the Korean Peninsula.
A spokesperson from the Foreign Ministry said South Korea was introducing “F-35A” stealth fighters – “a cutting-edge lethal equipment” – from the US, after the just-ended joint military exercises.
The act “is a grave provocation that has openly denied the joint declarations and the military agreement” between the two sides on the Korean Peninsula, he said.
The spokesperson said that the hostile military moves, including the US-South Korea joint military exercises and the build-up of armed forces in South Korea, are reducing the dynamics of dialogue for building lasting and durable peace on the Korean Peninsula, and compel North Korea to “weigh a realistic way of turning our attention more to strengthening the physical deterrence”.
