North Korea criticized on Monday the last week's agreement between the United States and South Korea over a potential nuclear response in the region, insisting it is escalating tensions to the "brink of a nuclear war."
Ednews informs via Korean media that the so-called Washington Declaration "aims to dodge the responsibility for the worst-ever nuclear-related crimes it [the US] has committed by systematically destroying and violating the nuclear non-proliferation system, and in particular, pushing the situation at the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a nuclear war," KCNA cited North Korean security analyst Choe Ju Hyon.
Washington and Seoul reached a new agreement about the potential use of nuclear weapons in case of an attack from Pyongyang. Commenting on the news, North Korea stressed that "it is the sinister hegemonic aim pursued by the US to turn the whole of South Korea into its biggest nuclear war outpost in the Far East and effectively use it for attaining its strategy for dominating the world."