SEOUL: North Korea “most strongly condemns” the declaration at the recent NATO summit, KCNA reported on Saturday, quoting the country’s foreign ministry spokesperson.
Leaders of NATO nations stressed a membership promise for Kyiv and took a stronger position on Beijing’s support for Moscow in a declaration this week at a summit in Washington.
“The “NATO Summit Declaration,” cooked up and made public on July 10, goes to prove that the U.S. and NATO, reduced to a tool for its confrontation, pose the serious threat to the world peace and security,” North Korea’s official media KCNA cited a foreign ministry spokesperson as saying.
North Korea’s statement maintained that the U.S. moves to extend military blocs with NATO and Asian partners, including Japan and South Korea are “the vicious root cause of seriously threatening the regional peace, extremely exacerbating the global security environment and sparking off worldwide arms race.”
The summit declaration called on Beijing to cease all material and political support for Moscow’s war effort. It also alleged Iran and North Korea of fuelling Russia’s war in Ukraine by giving direct military assistance to Moscow.
Separately, the United States and South Korea on the sidelines of a NATO summit inked a guideline on establishing an integrated system of extended deterrence for the Korean peninsula to counter threats from North Korea.
