Military tensions: North Korea threatens after US action

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North Korea has threatened to shoot down all US spy planes in its airspace. With such flights, the US Air Force risks an “accident” such as the “crashes of strategic reconnaissance aircraft,” a spokesman for the North Korean defense ministry told the North Korean state news agency KCNA on Monday. In the statement, the spokesman also criticized the planned stationing of a US nuclear submarine in South Korea. This threatens to bring the situation on the Korean peninsula closer to the “threshold of nuclear conflict”.

According to the spokesperson, the United States had “expanded its espionage activities beyond wartime levels” and conducted “provocative” sorties for eight consecutive days this month. A reconnaissance aircraft had also “several times” entered North Korean airspace over the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea is also known as the Sea of ​​Japan.

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The spokesman also condemned the planned deployment of a US nuclear submarine to the Korean peninsula. It poses a serious threat to regional and global security. “The current situation clearly demonstrates that the situation on the Korean peninsula is approaching the threshold of nuclear conflict due to provocative US military action,” the statement said.

Washington signed an agreement with Seoul in April to bolster South Korea’s nuclear shield. For the first time in decades, a US submarine equipped with nuclear missiles will make a stop in South Korea. A specific date for the project was not given.

Military tensions on the Korean peninsula have recently increased. The Communist leadership in Pyongyang has repeatedly threatened military escalation in the region. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, 62, is expected to push for increased cooperation with NATO members on North Korean threats at the NATO summit in Lithuania this week, Yoon’s office said. (AFP)

Source: Blick