North Korea Slams South Korea-US-Japan Missile Warning Information Sharing as ‘Military Folly’
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North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un took a commemorative photo with the participants of the 5th National Mothers’ Conference on the 8th, reported by the Korean Central News Agency on the 9th. [Photo=Yonhap News]
On the 14th, North Korea criticized the real-time missile warning information sharing system between South Korea, the U.S., and Japan, which is set to be operational within the year, as a “military folly”.
The Labor Party newspaper Rodong News, in a six-page article titled ‘Information Sharing Game Aimed at Preemptive Strike,’ claimed that “the three-way missile warning information sharing game led by the U.S. is a dangerous military folly aimed at driving the regional situation into a more severe confrontational phase.”
The newspaper stated, “The puppet state (South Korea) are blindly following the U.S. and are frantically involved in the fire play,” adding that “sharing missile warning information in such a situation is an evil intention to exacerbate the situation by inciting the puppets, and to set fire to the fuse of a war of aggression against the North when the opportunity arises.”
It also analyzed that there is a purpose to “suppress us and the surrounding countries and seize hegemony in the region” in the sharing of missile warning information.
The newspaper quoted a ‘Chinese military commentator’ who pointed out in 2016 when South Korea, the U.S., and Japan first conducted missile warning training, that this was the “first step in establishing a three-party missile defense system (MD).” It warned that “MD will not only threaten the safety of the Korean Peninsula, China, and Russia, but also bring about changes in the strategic situation in Northeast Asia.”
At the same time, it emphasized that “we must suppress the U.S., which is destroying peace, with force” under the condition that “the U.S. is making futile military follies and is desperate to rob our autonomy and seize hegemony in the region.”
Earlier, Mira Lap-Hooper, Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania at the National Security Council (NSC), stated on the 13th (local time) in Washington, DC at the Brookings Institution, “We are smoothly fulfilling the commitment to share missile alert information in real-time within this year, and we anticipate activating it in the next few days.”
South Korea, the U.S., and Japan have agreed to operate an information-sharing system between the three countries within the year to respond more effectively to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.
By. Yoon Sun Choi
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