Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the USA against the huge militarization of Northeast Asia, calling on Washington to stop using the threat of an alleged attack by North Korea “as a pretext” to deploy an advanced missile system in South Korea.
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He spoke just two weeks after North Korea s fifth and most powerful nuclear test provoked worldwide condemnation, prompting the UN Security Council to begin work on a new sanctions resolution.
Chief Director of Strategic Planning at the Joint Chiefs of staff, Leem Ho Young, revealed a new system called the Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation (KMPR) following North Korea’s nuclear warhead test claim. In March and August of this year, the two militaries were joined by a handful of other nations in war games created to simulate a North Korean military attack. This plan amounts to “a minimum of 500,000 active duty troops”, and “If it becomes clear the enemy intends to use nuclear-tipped missiles, in order to suppress its aims, the concept [of the special forces] is to retaliate against key areas that include the North Korean leadership”, Han was recorded as having stated.
Ri said that by imposing sanctions on North Korea, the U.N. Security Council was “playing the role of covering up the highhandeness and arbitrariness of the United States”.
“US imperialists and the Park Geun Hye group of traitors should not forget even [for] a moment that our revolutionary armed forces are ready to fight a decisive battle to thoroughly foil the reckless military moves for… a preemptive strike at the North”, a spokesperson for the Korean People’s Army said, reported IBT Times.
Ri claimed that B-1B bombers the US military flew over South Korea earlier this week crossed the demarcation line separating the two Koreas. One of the bombers landed at Osan Air Base Pyeongtaek, located roughly 25 miles from Seoul. -South Korean agreement on the deployment.
“All sides must refrain from further escalation of tensions to embark on the way toward political and diplomatic settlement of the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula through the resumption of six-party talks”, Lavrov said.
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Yun also questioned the qualification of the North as a U.N. member, saying that it has repeatedly violated the U.N. Charter and obligations it vowed to observe when joining the world body along with the South in 1991. “The alliance grows stronger every day and we remain prepared to defend and to preserve the security of the Korean Peninsula and the region”.
