North Korea accuses US of creating threat of nuclear war in Europe, Asia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea criticized NATO's new strategic concept, Report informs, citing North Korea's KCNA news agency.

A spokesperson for the DPRK Foreign Ministry gave the following answer to a question as regards the fact that the US and its vassal forces openly revealed their hostility towards the DPRK during the recent NATO summit:

"During the recent NATO summit, the chief executives of the US, Japan, and South Korea put their heads together for confrontation with the DPRK and discussed the dangerous joint military countermeasures against it, including the launch of tripartite joint military exercises, taking issue with its legitimate exercise of the right to self-defense for no ground.

"The US and its vassal forces inserted a hostile expression of finding fault with the DPRK's measure for bolstering its military capability for self-defense in a new "strategic concept" adopted at the NATO summit.

"Such anti-DPRK row of the hostile forces synchronizes with the start of the RIMPAC joint military exercises, the US-led multinational naval combined exercises, and South Korea's military lunacy to destroy peace and stability in the Korean peninsula as well as the Asia-Pacific region through the largest-ever scale dispatch of its naval force.

"The recent NATO summit more clearly proves that the US pursues a plan to contain Russia and China at the same time by realizing the "militarization" of Europe and forming a military alliance like NATO in the Asia-Pacific region and keeps the U.S.-Japan-south Korea tripartite military alliance as an important means for materializing the plan.

"Owing to the reckless military moves of the US and its vassal forces, dangerous situation, in which a nuclear war might break out simultaneously in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, has been created and the world peace and security came to be placed in the most critical condition after the end of the Cold War."