North Korea's UN ambassador: "Joint U.S. exercise is an act of igniting the fuse of war"

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a speech to the UN General Assembly, North Korea slammed the joint US-ROK maritime 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 of 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 / Ambassador of North Korea 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 intensify, our power to deter him will continue to be strengthened in direct proportion.]

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In particular, after citing President Biden's speech at the UN General Assembly last week that North Korea is blatantly violating UN sanctions, he insisted that the US 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In last year's speech, North Korea showed a conciliatory attitude, saying that if the double standard on North Korea is withdrawn, it will be possible to engage in dialogue.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 speech at 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.