Got to hand it to North Korea they know how to seize an opportunity. North Korea has been building up its nuclear armaments and has even started testing its ballistic missiles. They are doing things that the rest of the world sees as troubling. Yet when the United States and Britain made a deal with Australia to build some submarines for the country down under, North Korea saw it as the perfect scapegoat for all of their bad behavior. So now they are claiming this new deal justifies them continuing their nuclear weapons research and building. They said as much through their state-run media.
“North Korea has slammed a new security pact between Australia, the US and the UK as “extremely undesirable and dangerous”, warning it could trigger a “nuclear arms race” in the region.
Under the defense pact announced last week, known as AUKUS, the US will supply Australia with nuclear submarines, adding Australia to a small group of countries equipped with that military capability.
“These are extremely undesirable and dangerous acts which will upset the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific region and trigger off a chain of nuclear arms race,” an unidentified foreign ministry official told North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The official said North Korea was closely examining the deal and would proceed with “corresponding counteraction” if it has “even the smallest negative effect on our country’s safety.”
US President Joe Biden revealed last week that the US would deliver a fleet of at least eight nuclear-powered submarines to the Royal Australian Navy.
Mr. Biden stressed the submarines would be conventionally armed and will not be equipped with nuclear weapons.”
“North Korea supports the views of China and other countries that the deal would destroy “regional peace and security and the international non-proliferation system and intensify arms races.”
North Korea is so full of it. Even with China backing them, they would struggle in an arms race with Australia or any of our allies.
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