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SEOUL: A senior Pyongyang official described US President Joe Biden’s condemnation of North Korea’s launch of two missiles as part of its military tests as an “aggression” and a “provocation,” according to the US Central News Agency. North Korea on Saturday.
“Comments like these from the president of the United States are a clear violation of our country’s right to self-defense and a provocation,” said Ri Byung Chol, who oversaw the launch of the two missiles, in a statement released by the agency.
On Friday, North Korea announced that what it launched into the Sea of Japan on Thursday was a new “tactical guided missile.”
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga considered the two missiles launched from North Korea’s east coast to be “Ballastians,” a type of missile Pyongyang is prohibited from developing according to a UN Security Council resolution.
On Thursday, Biden warned that the United States “will respond to any” escalation “and described the launch of the two missiles as a” violation “of Security Council resolutions.
In his statement, Rhee said that North Korea expresses “its deep fear over the mistake made by the CEO of the United States in considering the missile tests that are carried out regularly, which is an exercise of our country’s right to self-defense, as a violation of the United Nations Resolution “.
The Korean official lamented Biden’s disclosure of his “hidden hostility,” and expressed his belief that “the US administration clearly took its first step incorrectly.”
“If the United States continues with its reckless remarks without thinking about the results, then it may face something that is not good,” he added, warning that North Korea is ready to continue to strengthen its military force.
Under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang has rapidly advanced its capabilities by testing missiles capable of reaching the entire United States.
Thursday’s launch of these two missiles comes days after Pyongyang’s test of two other short-range missiles, and also after a visit to the region by US Secretary of State and Defense Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin, to discuss coalition and security issues in the region, especially North Korea’s capabilities in the field of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
(AFP)
