North Korea accused the Biden administration of raising military tensions with #China through its “reckless” backing of #Taiwan, and said that the growing U.S. military presence in the region constitutes a potential threat to the North. thehindu.com/news/internati…
In comments carried by state media, North Korea Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myong Ho criticized the United States for sending warships through the Taiwan Strait and providing Taiwan with upgraded weapons systems and military training.
The United States’ “indiscreet meddling” in issues regarding Taiwan, which the North sees as entirely a Chinese internal affair, threatens to touch off a “delicate situation on the Korean Peninsula.”
“It is a well-known fact that the U.S. troops and its military bases in [South Korea] are in use to put pressure on China and that the huge forces of the U.S. and its satellite states, which are being concentrated near #Taiwan, ...
... can be committed to a military operation targeting the DPRK at any time,” Mr. Myong Ho said, using an abbreviation of the North’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
He said the increasing military presence of U.S.-led “hostile forces” in the region was based on a “lame assertion” that North Korea and China would cause trouble in Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula.
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