North Korea warned on Sunday that the US would face a “very grave crisis” as a result of President Joe Biden’s latest speech in which he called the North a security threat and revealed his intention to maintain an aggressive stance against it.
In his first address to Congress last week, Biden described North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear programs as “extreme threats” to American and global stability, promising to collaborate with allies to resolve the issues through diplomacy and stern deterrence.
‘His statement clearly reflects his intent to keep enforcing the hostile policy toward the DPRK as it had been done by the US for over half a century,’ Kwon Jong Gun, a senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official, said in a statement.
‘It is certain that the U.S. chief executive made a big blunder in the light of the present-day viewpoint,’ Kwon said.
‘Now that the keynote of the US new DPRK policy has become clear, we will be compelled to press for corresponding measures, and with time the US will find itself in a very grave situation.’
In a separate comment, a spokesperson for North Korea’s foreign ministry accused Washington of undermining the country’s supreme leadership by criticizing the country’s human rights situation.
The human rights critique is a threat that reveals the US is “gearing up for an all-out showdown” with North Korea, according to the anonymous spokesperson, which will be met with retaliation. “We have sufficiently warned the United States that it will suffer if it provokes us.”
The White House reiterated its goal of “full denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” on Friday.
