North Korea Blames U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy for Regional Chaos and Conflict AsiaToday By Park Young-hoon = North Korean authorities have claimed that the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy is causing regional and factional conflicts, leading to chaos. "The US-led security councils, including the Quad (US-Japan-India-Australia) and AUKUS (US-UK-Australia), have led to closure and factional confrontation, not freedom and openness," according to an article titled 'Washington's Indo-Pacific strategy is a script for geopolitical confrontation that destroys peace and stability in the region,' written by Ri Ji-won, a researcher at the US Institute of Foreign Affairs, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday. "The reality two years after the release of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy report clearly demonstrates the hollowness of the current U.S. administration's 'building a free, open, prosperous, and stable region,'" he said. "The U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy has not brought stability to the region, but instability and war." "The U.S. is using the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) to build an exclusive supply chain that excludes regional countries," he said, adding that "stable supply...
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