June 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The North Korean authorities have assured this Monday that they will take new and “overwhelming” measures of “deterrence” in the face of the deployment by the United States of a nuclear-armed aircraft carrier to the Korean peninsula, a decision that Pyongyang has described as ” provocation”.
The North Korean Vice Minister of Defense, Kim Kang In, has criticized in a statement the arrival of the ‘USS Theodore Roosevelt’ to the port of the South Korean city of Busan. Thus, he has regretted that Washington and Seoul continue to “play a very dangerous game” in an attempt to “show their military strength,” according to the North Korean news agency KCNA.
“With the most powerful of rhetoric, we urge the condemnation of provocative acts typical of American and South Korean fanaticism, which leave the door open to take new and overwhelming deterrence measures,” the senior official clarified as the United States, Korea The South and Japan carry out joint actions to confront the North Korean threat to the region.
The arrival of the aircraft carrier to South Korean territory marks the first by a US ship of this nature in seven months. North Korea has on numerous occasions denounced the joint military maneuvers of the three countries on the Korean Peninsula and has accused the parties of being “planning to invade” the territory.
This same Monday, the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has warned of the danger posed by the interception of South Korea’s GPS signals by North Korea.
The decision to condemn these actions within the organization took place after a meeting of its representatives in Canada, where they urged Pyongyang to stop carrying out this type of “illegal acts”, as reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. South Korean in a statement, which points to an increase in this type of actions.
Thus, it has denounced that North Korea has carried out a series of “attacks” with the aim of hindering and interrupting geolocation signals on several occasions between the end of May and the beginning of June, in addition to sending thousands of balloons with debris in its interior on the other side of its border in the south.
The South Korean Army uses detection systems for devices that generate interference and shares this information with the military in real time to guarantee an adequate response at all times, according to the country’s authorities.
The two Koreas are still technically at war since the war that took place between 1950 and 1953 ended with the signing of an armistice agreement and not a peace treaty.
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