North Korea on Monday condemned the US decision to lift restrictions on the range and load of South Korean missiles and considered that Washington’s new policy to achieve denuclearization of the peninsula is “just a hoax.”
It is the first time that the regime has responded to this decision, announced on May 21 during the summit in Washington between the presidents of the United States and South Korea, Joe Biden and Moon Jae-in.
North Korea assures that Washington’s new policy to achieve the denuclearization of the peninsula is “just a hoax”
During the meeting, it was approved to definitively end the guidelines that Washington imposed for decades on its ally regarding the manufacture of missiles.
In 2017, the Pentagon eliminated the limitation on the weight of the projectile payload (which affects the amount of explosives carried by the missile) but maintained the limitation of 800 kilometers of maximum range, a distance that in any case allowed it to reach everything North Korean territory.
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Despite being therefore a symbolic decision with regard to North Korea, Pyongyang has considered in a note published this Monday by the state news agency KCNA that it is an “apparently deliberate and hostile” act by the US. .
The note considers ironic that “the United States, stubbornly characterizing the measures taken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea’s official name) for self-defense as a violation of UN ‘resolutions’, grants its allies the unlimited right to missile development. “
File image of Kim Jong Un
The text says the decision “is a stark reminder of Washington’s hostile policy” toward the isolated country and that the Biden Administration’s new strategy to deal with North Korea is “just a hoax.”
The note was signed by a North Korean expert on international affairs, Kim Myong-chol, and not by a high-ranking regime official, as happens when Pyongyang wants to convey its harshest messages.
The new US strategy for North Korea rules out the “all or nothing” of Donald Trump and the “strategic patience” of Barack Obama
The new US strategy for North Korea rules out the “all or nothing” of Donald Trump and the “strategic patience” of Barack Obama, betting on a middle way that pursues diplomatic dialogue in phases and that seeks to rekindle conversations that have remained frozen since 2019.
However, Pyongyang, more isolated than usual due to its efforts to prevent COVID-19 from entering the country, has not responded, at least publicly, to the requests that Washington has been making since February to resume the denuclearization talks.
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