This picture, supplied by North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company on Oct. 17, exhibits the North’s blowing up of a part of the Donghae Line highway alongside the east coast on Oct. 15, in retaliation for the South’s alleged drone provocations. Yonhap
North Korea accused U.N. Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres of “double requirements” Sunday, saying he urged Pyongyang to train restraint following its destruction of inter-Korean roads whereas remaining silent about South Korea’s alleged drone infiltration into the North.
Kim Son-gyong, North Korea’s vice overseas minister for worldwide organizations, issued the assertion after Guterres known as for efforts to ease tensions and resume dialogue after the North blew up roads and rail traces on its facet of the closely fortified border on Tuesday.
“I categorical deep displeasure over and categorically reject the remarks of interfering within the inner affairs” of North Korea, Kim mentioned within the assertion carried by the Korean Central Information Company.
Kim claimed the destruction of roads and rail traces inside its territory falls beneath North Korea’s “sovereign proper from A to Z” and shouldn’t be topic to interference from the U.N. secretary-general.
The official urged Guterres to denounce what he termed the South Korean army’s “wanton infringement” upon North Korea’s sovereignty, reiterating claims that the South has despatched drones into North Korean airspace.
Pyongyang has accused Seoul of sending drones carrying anti-North Korean propaganda leaflets over the capital earlier this month. South Korea has neither confirmed nor denied that its army was accountable for sending drones throughout the border.
Kim mentioned the U.N. chief’s “prejudiced” comment might give “a inexperienced mild” to the U.S. and the South Korean makes an attempt to “ignite a warfare” in opposition to the North, warning he might bear accountability for escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
On Saturday, North Korea claimed it has found stays of at the very least one drone despatched from South Korea, describing it as the identical sort displayed on the South’s Armed Forces Day in Seoul earlier this month.
A North Korean protection ministry spokesperson warned of an “fast retaliatory assault” ought to one other violation of the North’s territory by the South’s army be confirmed. (Yonhap)
