North Korea: US threats make war unavoidable on Korean peninsula - KCNA
|Reuters reports the latest comments from a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, as cited by KCNA news agency, blaming the US for “confrontational warmongering”.
Key Quotes:
“Large military drills being carried out by the United States and South Korea and U.S. threats of a preemptive war against Pyongyang have made the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula “an established fact”.
“The remaining question now is: when will the war break out?”
“We do not wish for a war but shall not hide from it.”
“Recently, as the U.S. is conducting the largest-ever joint aerial drill on the Korean peninsula targeting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, its high-level politicians are showing alarming signs by making bellicose remarks one after another.”
“These confrontational war-mongering remarks cannot be interpreted in any other way but as a warning to us to be prepared for a war on the Korean peninsula.”
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