SEOUL • Large military drills being carried out by the United States and South Korea, and US threats of a preemptive war against Pyongyang have made the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula “an established fact”, North Korea’s foreign ministry said..
SEOUL • Large military drills being carried out by the United States and South Korea, and US threats of a preemptive war against Pyongyang have made the outbreak of war on the Korean peninsula “an established fact”, North Korea’s foreign ministry said.
A spokesman for the North’s foreign ministry also blamed “confrontational warmongering” remarks by US officials for pushing the peninsula to the brink of war.
“We do not wish for a war but shall not hide from it,” the spokesman said late on Wednesday in a statement carried by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency.
China called for “calm and restraint” yesterday. “The outbreak of war is not in any side’s interest. The ones that will suffer the most are ordinary people,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang in a statement.
Tensions on the Korean peninsula have risen markedly in recent months after North Korea’s latest missile and nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions and international condemnation.
