Oct. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
North Korea has defended its missile launches into the Sea of Japan as a planned self-defense measure in response to military threats to the country’s security from the United States.
“North Korea’s missile test launch is a regular and planned measure of self-defense to defend the country’s security and regional peace from direct military threats from the United States, which have lasted for more than half a century,” a spokesman said. of the National Aviation Administration (NAA) of the Asian country, according to the KCNA agency.
The multiple launches of missiles carried out by Pyongyang during the last weeks would have been carried out taking into account in advance the safety of civil aircraft on international flights.
For this reason, according to North Korea, the launches have not posed “any threat or damage to the security not only of civil aviation, but also of neighboring countries and the region.”
“North Korea’s ANA categorically condemns and rejects this as a political provocation by the United States and its vassal forces aimed at infringing on the country’s sovereignty,” the North Korean Air Force spokesman said, according to the agency. .
“The attempt by the United States and its vassal forces to prevent North Korea from exercising its right to self-defense is a flagrant violation of national rights that goes against the UN Charter,” he said.
Pyongyang has warned that not only will it “never forgive” maneuvers by Washington and other “hostile forces” to allegedly isolate and suffocate North Korea within the UN, but that it will take increasingly “tougher measures against them”.
