North Korea warns that the peninsula is close to the “edge of a nuclear war” due to US maneuvers

June 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The North Korean government has indicated this Sunday that the United States maneuvers in the region threaten the stability of the area, indicating that the Korean peninsula is “on the verge of a nuclear war.”

“The bellicose moves by the United States have pushed military tensions on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, which have already plunged into an extremely volatile situation on the brink of nuclear war,” reads a report by the Institute for American Studies. from the North Korean Foreign Ministry.

In this sense, Pyongyang has considered that “if a war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, located in an important geopolitical position, where the interests of the great powers are intertwined, it will rapidly expand into a world war and an unprecedented thermonuclear war in the world”.

“This will have the most catastrophic and irreversible consequences for peace and security on the Korean peninsula, in Northeast Asia and in the rest of the world,” says the institution, which ensures that the solution is for Washington to “eliminate its anachronistic hostile policy” toward North Korea.

According to this document, Washington “has had the eye of greed on the Korean peninsula” since the mid-19th century, after which it “illegally occupied South Korea under the guise of ‘liberator’ and ‘protector'” at the end of World War II. World.

Pyongyang refers to the 1950-1953 Korean War, comparing current military tensions in the region with the outbreak of the conflict, according to the text published by the KCNA news agency.

In this sense, the North Korean authorities allege that the joint military exercises between Washington and Seoul, which began in the 1950s, “have been carried out incessantly for almost seven decades under code names.”

“The current US government forces in the White House are more openly pursuing the longstanding attempt to mount a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in collusion with the South Korean puppet regime led by Yoon Suk Yeol, bent on subservience to the United States,” the report denounced.

Thus, they have indicated that military exercises “are becoming more and more adventurous and reckless in their scale, scope, intensity and content as the days go by.” “In 2022 alone, the United States, in collusion with South Korean puppet forces, conducted several nuclear warfare exercises, including a joint aerial drill involving strategic assets,” they noted.