North Korea criticized the US Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Rubia on Monday for calling it a “villain state”. According to Pyongyang, such statements do not help US interests, TASR reports on the reports of Reuters and Jonhap.
The North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to the KCNA State Press Agency, stated that the country would respond to the United States’s enemy provocations by strong countermeasures. This is the first DPRK criticism to the new US government since Donald Trump returned to the US President in Januarywrote Jonhap.
The Ministry also condemned the United States for a new plan of the missile shield, saying that North Korea must strengthen its own military force in response. “The idea of a new missile defense system, which resembles the ghost of the dangerous plan of the ‘Star Wars’ … From the Cold War, it poses a risk of justifying the arms race under the pretext of coping with the ‘threat’ of adversaries regardless of her reality,” she quoted from KCNA.
The North Korean resort added that, given the “increasingly harsh worldwide security environment”, it is urgent for the DPRK to constantly develop self -defense capacities based on nuclear weapons as a deterrent.
