NK: Hostile US could spark nuclear war
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October 3, 2012, Wednesday
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A North Korean minister hit out at the United States on Monday, warning that its "hostile" policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war.
Addressing the final session of the UN General Assembly's annual high-level meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon said the two Koreas had become "the world's most dangerous hotspot" and pledged to use North Korea's "mighty" military deterrent against any "reckless provocations." He said that the only way to prevent war and ensure peace on the Korean peninsula was to put an end to the hostile US policy toward North Korea.
Pak said the "vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of tension" was an ongoing phenomenon on the Korean peninsula, which has become the world's most dangerous hotspot where a spark of fire could set off a thermonuclear war."
Pak was addressing the world body for the first time since the death in December of Kim Jong Il and the transfer of power to his son, Kim Jong Un.
Pak said Kim was leading efforts to advance his father's economic development program with his own "insight into the world," and is implementing an "independent foreign policy" and opening a new chapter in developing relations with friendly countries "not bound by the past."
Addressing the final session of the UN General Assembly's annual high-level meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon said the two Koreas had become "the world's most dangerous hotspot" and pledged to use North Korea's "mighty" military deterrent against any "reckless provocations." He said that the only way to prevent war and ensure peace on the Korean peninsula was to put an end to the hostile US policy toward North Korea.
Pak said the "vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of tension" was an ongoing phenomenon on the Korean peninsula, which has become the world's most dangerous hotspot where a spark of fire could set off a thermonuclear war."
Pak was addressing the world body for the first time since the death in December of Kim Jong Il and the transfer of power to his son, Kim Jong Un.
Pak said Kim was leading efforts to advance his father's economic development program with his own "insight into the world," and is implementing an "independent foreign policy" and opening a new chapter in developing relations with friendly countries "not bound by the past."
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