Tensions persist between the United States and North Korea. While the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, recently assured in an interview that the country led by Kim Jong-un is a “Royeou state which must be taken care of ”the answer was not long in coming.
“We will take vigorous countermeasures to respond to these provocations, as usual”replied a spokesperson for the Ministry of North Korean Foreign Affairs in a statement quoted by the official agency KCNA, castigating “” Hostile remarks aimed at teaching the image of a sovereign state. ” According to Pyongyang, the American Secretary of State says only “” Indicates by qualifying the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of a rogue state ”.
New threats
These responses from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are among the first criticisms issued by North Korea against the United States since the inauguration of Donald Trump in the White House. The Asian country, largely cut off from the world diplomatically and economically, is under heavy sanctions. Its major point of discord with Washington for several years: the development of nuclear weapons.
No later than last week, despite the calls of the foot of the American president Trump, who spoke of a reopening of the dialogues between the two countries, North Korea promised that its nuclear program would continue. “It is our firm political and military position and our noble and immutable task of indefinitely developing the posture of nuclear counterattack of the State”, insisted the North Korean leader after having visited a production of nuclear material production.
