The war of words between the US and North Korea is far from dying down, with the latter now accusing Donald Trump of igniting tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to “shovel up money” by selling more weapons to US “vassals” South Korea and Japan.
The US, led by President Donald Trump, was slammed as a “war merchant and strangler of peace” in a commentary by Rodong Sinmun newspaper, cited by North Korean KCNA news agency.
“It is working hard to fatten its munitions monopolies and create the imbalance of force and the military confrontation in certain regions through arms sales,” the commentary read.
Despite arms trade being a common international practice, the US is “abusing it for world domination beyond the commercial purposes.”
By his inflammatory rhetoric regarding North Korea, Trump intends “to create the hair-trigger situation on the peninsula and shovel up money by selling the US-made arms and equipment to vassal forces,” the commentary read, referring to Japan and South Korea, which the North Korean outlet called “puppets” of Washington.
Trump said that he was “allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States” after the North test-fired a ballistic missile over Japan in early September.
The Rodong Sinmun commentary was published ahead of joint US-South Korea naval drills, which kick off in the Sea of Japan and Yellow Sea on Monday.
