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North Korea accuses US of creating situation for nuclear war

EDITH M. LEDERER testing, and it has conduct- fective response.” DPRK,” the government will of the Security Council on
Associated Press ed additional missile tests Kim said the Trump adminis- keep increasing “its mili- April 28 on North Korea’s
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — this year including one this tration is “trumpeting about tary muscle” to protect the nuclear program which is
North Korea’s deputy U.N. past weekend that failed. ‘peace by strength’” by country. scheduled to be chaired
ambassador accused the Kim spoke on a day that U.S. deploying “one strategic Kim said the DPRK’s policy by U.S. Secretary of State
United States on Monday Rex Tillerson.
of turning the Korean Pen- He called it “another abuse
insula into “the world’s big- of authority” by the United
gest hotspot” and creat- States, which holds the Se-
ing “a dangerous situation curity Council presidency
in which a thermonuclear this month, and a violation
war may break out at any of the DPRK’s sovereignty.
moment.” Pointing to the recent U.S.
Kim In Ryong told a news airstrike on a Syrian base in
conference that “if the U.S. retaliation for a chemical
dares opt for a military ac- weapons attack, Kim said
tion,” North Korea “is ready “the U.S. without any hesi-
to react to any mode of tation perpetrates military
war desired by the U.S.” attacks” and threatens sov-
He said the Trump adminis- ereign states.
tration’s deployment of the He said the United States
Carl Vinson nuclear carrier insists “on the gangster-like
task group to waters off the logic that its invasion of a
Korean Peninsula again sovereign state is ‘decisive,
“proves the U.S. reckless just and proportionate’ and
moves for invading the contributes to ‘defending’
DPRK have reached a seri- the international order in its
ous phase of its scenario.” bid to apply it to the Kore-
Kim stressed that U.S.-South U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives with U.S. Gen. Vincent Brooks, second from right, com- an peninsula as well.”
mander of the United Nations Command, U.S. Forces Korea and Combined Forces Command,
Korean military exercises and South Korean Deputy Commander of the Combined Force Command Gen. Leem Ho-young, Kim ignored questions
being staged now are left, at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which has separated the about the DPRK’s relation-
the largest-ever “aggres- two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea, Monday, April 17, 2017. ship with China and re-
sive war drill” aimed at his (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ports that the government
country, formally the Dem- didn’t respond to requests
ocratic People’s Repub- Vice President Mike Pence striking means after another is shaped by the Trump ad- from Chinese officials for a
lic of Korea. “The prevail- traveled to the tense zone in South Korea,” citing the ministration’s push for “high meeting.
ing grave situation proves dividing North and South Carl Vinson carrier group, intensity sanctions” against Instead he reiterated two
once again that the DPRK Korea and warned Pyong- nuclear strategic bombers the country, deploying tac- Chinese proposals that the
was entirely just when it in- yang that after years of and stealth fighters. tical nuclear weapons in U.S. rejected.
creased in every way its testing the U.S. and South But he said the “the DPRK South Korea and launch- One called for “dual-track”
military capabilities for self- Korea with its nuclear am- remains unfazed.” ing military action aimed talks on denuclearization of
defense and pre-emptive bitions, “the era of strategic “We never beg for peace at “beheading” the North’s the Korean Peninsula — the
attack with a nuclear force patience is over.” but we will take the tough- leadership headed by Kim top priority of the United
as a pivot,” he said. After 25 years of trying to est counteraction against Jong Un. States — and replacing the
Tensions have escalated deal patiently with North the provocateurs in order He said rolling back the hos- armistice that ended the
over North Korean moves Korea over its nuclear pro- to defend ourselves by tile U.S. policy toward the 1950-53 Korean War with
to accelerate its weapons gram, Pence said, “all op- powerful force of arms and DPRK “is the precondition a formal peace treaty, a
development. The North tions are on the table” to keep to the road chosen to solving all the problems key demand of Pyong-
conducted two nuclear deal with threat. And he by ourselves,” Kim said. in the Korean Peninsula.” yang. The other called for
tests and 24 ballistic missile warned that any use of nu- He warned that as long as Kim called the press con- a freeze on U.S.-South Kore-
tests last year, defying six clear weapons by Pyong- the United States and its al- ference to “categorically an military exercises and a
Security Council sanctions yang would be met with lies “scheme to bring down reject” the U.S. decision freeze on DPRK missile and
resolutions banning any “an overwhelming and ef- the socialist system in the to hold an open meeting nuclear tests.q

Abe: Japan planning for refugees in event of Korean crisis

MARI YAMAGUCHI foreigners, landing proce- The government has been reiterating President Don- with the U.S. and South
Associated Press dures, building and operat- also working on evacua- ald Trump administration’s Korea to change (North
TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minis- ing shelters, and screening tion plans for about 60,000 shift toward applying more Korea’s) attitude, and en-
ter Shinzo Abe said Monday asylum seekers. Japanese from South Ko- pressure on Pyongyang. courage China to play a
that Japan’s government is Abe’s disclosure came in rea in case of a crisis. Abe praised the policy, greater role,” Abe said.
drawing up contingency response to a question that Abe is set to discuss North noting a recent bilateral Key ministers of Abe’s Na-
plans in case a crisis on the had been occasionally Korea on Tuesday with U.S. statement confirming the tional Security Council met
Korean Peninsula sends an asked in the past but is now Vice President Mike Pence. U.S. commitment to de- to analyze the latest devel-
influx of refugees to Japan. more realistic than ever Pence will be flying to To- fending Japan with the use opment in North Korea and
Abe told a parliamentary with North Korea’s missile kyo from South Korea, of both nuclear and con- discuss Japanese respons-
session that the govern- capability rapidly advanc- where he declared “the ventional arms as extend- es, said Chief Cabinet Sec-
ment is formulating mea- ing and tension with the era of strategic patience ed deterrence. retary Yoshihide Suga, with-
sures including protecting U.S. rising. (with North Korea) is over,” “We’ll closely cooperate out elaborating.q