North Korea says Biden administration took wrong first rung on the ladder over latest missile test
27 March, 2021
North Korea said on Saturday (Mar 27) that the administration of US President Joe Biden had taken an incorrect first rung on the ladder and revealed "deep-seated hostility" by criticising its self-defensive missile test.
North Korea in Friday claimed it had launched a fresh kind of tactical short-selection ballistic missile. Biden explained the test violated UN Secureness Council resolutions but said he remained available to diplomacy with Pyongyang.
Ri Pyong Chol, secretary of the North's ruling Worker's Party's Central Committee, said the missile test was self-defensive against threats posed by South Korea and the United States with their joint military exercises and advanced weapons.
"We exhibit our deep apprehension over the US leader faulting the standard testfire, workout of our state's to self-defence, as the violation of UN 'resolutions' and openly revealing his deep-seated hostility," Ri said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.
Biden's remarks were a great "undisguised encroachment on our state's to self-defence and provocation," he said, adding Washington might face "a thing that is not great" if it continues to make "thoughtless remarks".
"I think that the brand new US administration obviously took its first step wrong," Ri said.
He accused the Biden administration of "exploiting every option" to provoke Pyongyang by branding it as a "security threat."
The test came only days after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to work to denuclearise North Korea and criticized its "systemic and widespread" human being rights abuses during his visit in Seoul with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
North Korea in addition has slammed the South Korea-US exercises which ended last week, even though they were repeatedly scaled back to facilitate a good restart of denuclearisation talks with Pyongyang.
Ri said Washington insisted on a good "gangster-like logic" to be able to bring strategic nuclear assets to South Korea and test intercontinental ballistic missiles in its convenience, but ban North Korea from testing even a tactical weapon.
"We cannot but build invincible physical electric power for reliably defending the security of our state beneath the present situation where South Korea and america constantly pose military threats ... while persistently conducting dangerous war exercises and presenting advanced weapons," he said.
The White House, which said its North Korea policy review was in the "final stages," declined to comment. The State Department did not immediately react to a obtain comment.
However when asked earlier about the start and whether it would affect the insurance plan review, department spokeswoman Jalina Porter once more condemned the test due to "destabilising."
"North Korea's unlawful nuclear and ballistic missile applications constitute serious threats to international peace and secureness," she told a normal news briefing.
"I can't underscore a sufficient amount of that the president and his secureness team happen to be continuing to determine the situation and among our greatest priorities at this time is making certain we're on a single page as our allies and partners."
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