North Korea criticizes “threats” made by Blinken during his visit to China

June 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –

North Korea has criticized comments made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his trip to China, accusing the diplomat of threatening the country with military action if he perceives that Beijing does not put pressure on the authorities in any way. North Korean forces to stop their ballistic testing policy.

During the visit, Blinken made “threatening comments that the United States would take military action if China does not move,” Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of US Affairs of the country’s Foreign Ministry, said in comments collected by the North Korea’s official news agency, the KCNA.

The criticism comes days after Blinken wrapped up his two-day trip to Beijing, where he spoke with President Xi Jinping on topics including North Korea, Russia’s war in Ukraine and Taiwan. US President Joe Biden hailed the visit as a step toward restoring US-China ties.

Blinken spoke with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin after the trip to China to brief him on the discussions, including North Korea’s “increasingly destabilizing actions,” the Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said on Friday. State, Matthew Miller, in a statement.

The main cause of the tensions on the Korean peninsula is the United States, not North Korea or its neighbors, according to Kwon, before adding that his country will not refrain from exercising its right to self-defense unless the United States stops violate its sovereignty and take clear steps to abandon its hostile policies.

The North Korean official went so far as to describe Blinken as a “lower-class diplomat” incapable of detecting the nature of relations between countries. His words are “a manifestation of his dangerous state of mind, oriented towards hegemony,” according to Kwon, in information collected in turn by Bloomberg.