North Korea condemns deployment of US nuclear aircraft carrier and threatens to destroy it

North Korea today condemned the arrival of a North American aircraft carrier in South Korea and threatened to destroy it at a time of renewed tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

“It is an overt military provocation that leads the situation to irrevocable catastrophic circumstances that U.S persist in introducing several strategic nuclear resources into the Korean Peninsulawhere there is the possibility of a constant military collision and the danger of an outbreak of a nuclear war It’s rampant”, says an editorial published today by the KCNA agency.

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On Thursday, the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Reagan arrived at the port of Busan (320 kilometers southeast of Seoul) accompanied by his attack group, also formed by the destroyer USS Shoup or the guided missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls.

They will remain in place for a total of five days to carry out exchange activities with the South Korean navy.

The implementation is part of the call “extended or expanded deterrence“, commitment to Pentagon with Seoul, which includes the regular and rotating deployment of US strategic assets to respond to the North Korean regime and discourage future actions such as testing weapons of mass destruction.

For Pyongyang, the arrival of the aircraft carrier and its strike group “demonstrates that the US plans to carry out a nuclear attack against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (official name of the North Korea) and its implementation have reached its most serious phase of systematization and visualization and the outbreak of a nuclear war is now coming to light”.

The article adds that the actions of the allies “crossed the red line“, what washington “should realize that its strategic assets have entered extremely dangerous waters” is that “The DPRK’s fastest and most powerful attack will be against “extended deterrence” means‘”.

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The message of Pyongyang It also comes after talks in Seoul this week about the possibility of canceling an important agreement to reduce military tension signed in 2018 by the two Koreas in light of what the South denounces as “repeated violations” of the pact in recent years on the north side.

After the failure of the 2019 denuclearization talks, tensions rose again on the Korean peninsula, with Pyongyang rejecting any offer of dialogue and carrying out a record number of missile tests and Seoul and Washington resuming their major joint maneuvers and deploying American strategic strategies in the region. active.

Source: Elcomercio

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