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flood: north korea Accused American spy planes violating its airspace and threatening to shoot them down, escalating tensions ahead of NATO leaders meeting this week in Lithuania for their annual summit.
A spokesman for North Korea’s defense ministry says the United States is engaged in the “most undisguised nuclear blackmail” by planning to bring a nuclear-armed submarine to the peninsula and conducting “enemy espionage activities” by flying spy planes off its eastern and western coasts, KCNA reported. Central government on Monday.
North Korea claimed that for eight consecutive days, drones and spy planes flew along its coasts, and the planes violated its airspace. “There is no guarantee that such a terrible incident as the shooting down of a US Air Force strategic reconnaissance plane will not happen,” it quoted the spokesman as saying.
It added that Pyongyang would take measures to prevent Washington’s “reckless actions”.
Kim Jong UnThe regime sometimes fired ballistic missiles in a show of anger soon after threats were made. And last month, it launched two short-range nuclear-capable missiles just minutes after KCNA released a message from a Defense Ministry spokesperson denouncing the joint US-South Korean military exercises and threatening retaliation.
The latest threats have raised concerns about North Korea as South Korean President Yoon Sok Yul attends the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. Yun said in an interview with the Associated Press that he would seek help from NATO leaders on how to deter Pyongyang from increasing its nuclear ambitions.
South Korea is not a member of NATO, but Yoon and other leaders will attend as the union and its partners focus their attention on supporting Ukraine.
The United States has flown reconnaissance flights near North Korea for decades and has a network of spy satellites monitoring its key facilities. South Korea’s Defense Ministry and US Forces Korea did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Yoon and President Joe Biden agreed at an April summit in Washington to deploy more US nuclear assets to the region. US President Kim warned that if he carried out a nuclear strike, it would mean the end of his regime.
The United States in June sent a nuclear-powered submarine and guided missiles to South Korea for the first time in six years, in a show of force aimed at deterring North Korea from military strikes. Yonhap News Agency reported that it plans to send another one soon.
North Korea has launched more than 90 ballistic missiles over the past 18 months, as Kim unleashes new weapons to launch a nuclear attack on the US mainland and America’s main allies in the region, South Korea and Japan.
A spokesman for North Korea’s defense ministry says the United States is engaged in the “most undisguised nuclear blackmail” by planning to bring a nuclear-armed submarine to the peninsula and conducting “enemy espionage activities” by flying spy planes off its eastern and western coasts, KCNA reported. Central government on Monday.
North Korea claimed that for eight consecutive days, drones and spy planes flew along its coasts, and the planes violated its airspace. “There is no guarantee that such a terrible incident as the shooting down of a US Air Force strategic reconnaissance plane will not happen,” it quoted the spokesman as saying.
It added that Pyongyang would take measures to prevent Washington’s “reckless actions”.
Kim Jong UnThe regime sometimes fired ballistic missiles in a show of anger soon after threats were made. And last month, it launched two short-range nuclear-capable missiles just minutes after KCNA released a message from a Defense Ministry spokesperson denouncing the joint US-South Korean military exercises and threatening retaliation.
The latest threats have raised concerns about North Korea as South Korean President Yoon Sok Yul attends the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. Yun said in an interview with the Associated Press that he would seek help from NATO leaders on how to deter Pyongyang from increasing its nuclear ambitions.
South Korea is not a member of NATO, but Yoon and other leaders will attend as the union and its partners focus their attention on supporting Ukraine.
The United States has flown reconnaissance flights near North Korea for decades and has a network of spy satellites monitoring its key facilities. South Korea’s Defense Ministry and US Forces Korea did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Yoon and President Joe Biden agreed at an April summit in Washington to deploy more US nuclear assets to the region. US President Kim warned that if he carried out a nuclear strike, it would mean the end of his regime.
The United States in June sent a nuclear-powered submarine and guided missiles to South Korea for the first time in six years, in a show of force aimed at deterring North Korea from military strikes. Yonhap News Agency reported that it plans to send another one soon.
North Korea has launched more than 90 ballistic missiles over the past 18 months, as Kim unleashes new weapons to launch a nuclear attack on the US mainland and America’s main allies in the region, South Korea and Japan.
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