{"id":1810,"date":"2013-10-12T13:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/12\/north-korea-warns-of-all-out-war-condemns-nuclear-blackmail\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T16:14:55","slug":"north-korea-warns-of-all-out-war-condemns-nuclear-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/north-korea-warns-of-all-out-war-condemns-nuclear-blackmail\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea warns of ‘all-out war,’ condemns ‘nuclear blackmail’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an “all-out war,” urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as “nuclear blackmail.” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North’s National Defence Commission (NDC), chaired by leader Kim Jong-Un, said the US government must withdraw its policy of hostility against the North if it wants peace on both the Korean Peninsula and the “US mainland.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“(The United States) must bear it in mind that reckless provocative acts would meet our retaliatory strikes and lead to an all-out war of justice for a final showdown with the United States,” a spokesman of the NDC was quoted as saying in a statement carried by Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

“We emphasise again that the United States must withdraw various measures aimed to isolate and strangulate us. Dependent upon this are … peace and security, not only on the Korean Peninsula but the US mainland as well.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comments come after a two-day joint naval drill between Japan, South Korea and the US, which included an American nuclear aircraft carrier, sparked a series of angry responses and threats from Pyongyang.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, the North slammed the drill as a “serious military provocation” and vowed to “bury in the sea” the American carrier taking part in the exercise.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest bellicose statement from the NDC demanded that the US lift sanctions against the North, stop the “constant nuclear blackmails” and various war drills.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It rejected as “intolerable contempt” a US demand that it should show tangible commitment towards abandoning its nuclear programme if it wants substantive talks with the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula is an inalterable policy goal of the DPRK government,” it said, but added that getting rid of such weapons should also include a total removal of US nuclear threats against the North.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US and South Korea have long demanded that Pyongyang show tangible commitment to ending its nuclear weapons programme before the six-party talks, which have been stalled for several years, can resume.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North has said for years it wants denuclearisation, and that it is developing a nuclear arsenal to protect itself from the US military, which occasionally sends nuclear-powered warships and aircraft capable of carrying atomic weapons into the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, the North carried out its third underground nuclear test in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, sending tensions soaring and raising fears of possible conflict. It also launched a rocket in December that Washington said was a disguised ballistic missile test.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as the two Koreas, China and the US, the six-party talks also involve Russia and Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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