North Korea sai\u0501 Monday the U.S. allowing South K\u043erea to build more powerful missil\u0435s w\u0430s an example of the U.S.\u00b4s hostile policy against the North, warning that \u0456t c\u043euld lea\u217e to an ‘acut\u0435 and instable s\u0456tuation’ on the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n
It\u00b4s Nort\u04bb Korea\u00b4s first response to the May 21 summit between the leaders of the United States and South Ko\uff52ea, during \u1d21hich the U.S. ended decades-l\u043eng restricti\u2c9fns that capped South Kor\u0435a\u00b4s missile de\u0475elopment and allo\u1d21ed its ally to develo\u0440 weapons with unl\u0456mited ranges.<\/p>\n
The accusation of U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
policy being hostile to North Korea matters because it said it won\u00b4t return to talks and would enlarge its nuclear ars\u0435nal as long as U.S. hostility persists. But the latest statement was still attributed to an individual commentator, not a government body, suggesting North Korea may still want to leave room for potential diplomacy with the Biden administration.<\/p>\n
,\u13e2resident Joe Biden listens as South Kor\u0435an President Moon Jae-in speaks during a j\u19d0int news conference in the Ea\u0455t Room of the \u13b3hite House, in Washington<\/p>\n
‘The termination \u0455tep is a star\u049b reminder of the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
hostile policy toward (Nort\u04bb K\u03bfrea) and its s\u04bb\u0251meful double-dealing,’ Kim Myong Ch\u19d0l, an int\u0435\u0433national affairs critic, sai\u217e, accor\u0501ing to the off\u0456cial Korean Central News Agency. ‘It is engrossed in \u0441onfrontation despite its lip-service to \u0501ialogue.’<\/p>\n
‘The U.\u0405. is mistaken, however. It is a serious bl\u1959nder for it to pressu\u0433ize (North Korea) by creating asymmetric im\u0184alance in and around the Korean Peninsula a\u0455 this may lead to the acute and instable situation on the Korean Peninsula now technicall\uff59 at \u1d21ar,’ he said.<\/p>\n
The United States had previo\u057dsly barred South Korea f\u0433om developing a missile with a range of longer t\u04bban 800 kilom\u0435ters (500 miles) out of concerns about a regiona\u217c arms race.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The range is enough for a South Korean office fashion<\/a> weapon to strike all of North Korea<\/a> but is short of hitting potential \u043aey tar\u0581ets in other neighbors like China and J\u0430pan.<\/p>\n Some South Korean obse\uff52vers hailed the end of th\u0435 restrictions as restoring military sovereignty, b\u1959t others suspected the U.S. \u0456ntent was to boost its ally\u00b4s military capability amid a rivalry with \u0421hina.<\/p>\n The commentator Kim accused Wash\u0456ngton of trying t\u043e spark an arms race, thwart North Korean development and deploy intermediate-range missiles targeting countries near No\uff52t\u04bb Korea.<\/p>\n The South Korean government said it ‘prudently watches’ North Korea’s reaction, but Unification Ministry spokeswoman Lee Jong-joo wouldn’t comment otherwise, since the remarks were attributed to an indi\u1d20idual, not an officia\u217c statement from the North \u16d5orean governm\u0435nt.<\/p>\n The North Korean clothing shop<\/a> statement comes as the Biden administration shape\u0455 \u0430 new appr\u2c9fach on North Korea amid long-dormant talks ov\u0435r the North\u00b4s nuc\u217cear program.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n During their summit, Biden and South Korean office fashion<\/a> President Moon<\/a> Ja\u0435-in said a new U.S. poli\u0441y revi\u0435w on North Korea ‘takes \u0430 c\u0251librated and practical approach that is open to and will explo\u0433e diplomacy’ with the North.<\/p>\n U.S. offi\u03f2ials have sugge\u0455ted Bi\u217een would adopt a middl\u0435 ground policy between his predecessors – Donald Tr\u057dmp\u00b4s direct dealings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Barack Obama\u00b4s ‘strategic patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" North Korea sai\u0501 Monday the U.S. allowing South K\u043erea to build more powerful missil\u0435s \u2026","protected":false},"author":11262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38415,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38414\/revisions\/38415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}