NKorea slams US over submarine deal, warns countermeasures

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North Korean state media published comments from an unidentified Foreign Ministry official who called the arrangement between US, Britain, and Australia an “extremely dangerous act” that would destroy the security balance in the Asia-Pacific.

In this photo provided by U.S. Navy, the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Missouri departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for a scheduled deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility, Sept. 1, 2021. Australia decided to invest in U.S. nuclear-powered submarines and dump its contract with France to build diesel-electric submarines because of a changed strategic environment, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021.

The official said the North was closely examining the deal and would proceed accordingly if it has “even a little adverse impact on the security of our country.” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison blamed the switch on a deteriorating strategic environment in the Indo-Pacific, a clear reference to China’s massive military buildup that has been gaining pace.

Nuclear negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang have stalled since the collapse of a second Trump-Kim meeting in 2019, when the Americans rejected North Korean demands for major sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling an aging nuclear facility. That would have amounted to only a partial surrender of the North's nuclear capabilities.

The North's launches from rail cars on Wednesday came hours before the South reported its first test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile. The dual display of military might highlighted a return of tensions in the region.

 

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