North Korea said on Tuesday that South Korea was driving relation between the rival neighbors into “destructive” stage as it slammed the US’ hostile policy.
North Korea said on Tuesday that South Korea was driving relation between the rival neighbors into “destructive” stage as it slammed the US’ hostile policy.
Hours after South Korea paraded a missile capable of pinpoint strikes across the border, North Korea's Vice Fo
reign Minister Pak Kil-Yon told the UN that his government's "generous" efforts to improve relations had hit a "confrontational approach" from the South.
Addressing the General Assembly meeting of world leaders and senior ministers, Pak said that the South's attitude is "creating the danger of driving relations back into a destructive stage again."
Earlier, South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye said in Seoul that the North's nuclear bombs pose a "grave threat".
The North Korean minister said "US hostile policy" was the cause of tensions on the Korean peninsula and accused the United States of forcing through UN sanctions over a ballistic rocket launch.
The UN Security Council extended sanctions against the North in January for launching a rocket considered equivalent to a long range missile and after the North's third nuclear arms test in February.
"It represents a typical example of how and for what purpose the power of the UN Security Council is being abused," Pak said, accusing the United States, one of five permanent members of the council, of "manipulation".
"The instances of the UN Security Council being abused by a certain state as a tool of its strategic interests should never go unchallenged," Pak said.
