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a speech to the UN General Assembly, North Korea denounced the joint US-ROK naval exercise that started yesterday (26th) as a dangerous act.

He also said that he would not recognize sanctions, arguing that the enactment of nuclear force is all the fault of the United States.



Correspondent Kim Jong-won from New York reports.



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North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, Kim Seong-joo, delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly, referring to the joint South Korea-US naval exercise and accusing it of posing a very serious danger around the Korean Peninsula.



[Kim Seong/North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations: This is clearly a very dangerous act of igniting the fuse that drives the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the point of war.] Reiterating that



North Korea's development of nuclear weapons is attributable to the United States, He said that the formalized enactment of nuclear force is also due to the hostile policy of the United States over the past 30 years.



[Kim Seong / Ambassador of North Korea to the United Nations: As the hostile policy and military blackmail of the United States toward us intensifies, our power to deter him will continue to be strengthened in proportion.]



In particular, during President Biden's speech at the UN General Assembly last week, North Korea After stating that the United States is blatantly violating these UN sanctions, it insisted that it has never and will not recognize UN sanctions unilaterally made by the United States.



He also criticized the UN Security Council, which is discussing sanctions on North Korea, as interference in internal affairs.



In last year's speech, North Korea showed a conciliatory attitude, saying that if the double standard on North Korea is withdrawn, it will be possible to engage in dialogue.



The North made a direct reference to South Korea in its address to the UN General Assembly last year, but this year it only used the expression that it was a follower of the United States and did not mention a word about South Korea throughout the speech.