North Korea has criticized the recent Quad summit, a strategic dialogue among the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, accusing the U.S. of fostering hostility and political provocation against its sovereignty.
In a statement reported by the Korean Central News Agency, a spokesperson for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry condemned the summit, declaring, “Recently, the United States has committed a serious political provocation that maligns our country’s legitimate exercise of sovereign rights and fosters a collective atmosphere of pressure against North Korea during the Quad leaders’ meeting.”
The spokesperson further asserted, “While the White House insists that the Quad leaders’ meeting did not target any specific country, this fabricated joint statement reveals that the Quad merely serves as a political and diplomatic tool for the U.S. to implement its strategy of unilateral dominance.”
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry emphasized its strong disapproval, stating, “We express grave concern and strongly condemn the United States for grossly infringing upon our sovereignty and development rights while openly revealing its most hostile confrontational intentions.”
“The current U.S. administration’s increasing reliance on anachronistic minority politics only proves that as much as U.S. coercion and hegemony no longer work internationally, their diplomatic space also shrinks.”
Highlighting its commitment to sovereignty and security, the spokesperson added, “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will never tolerate any hostile acts that infringe upon our sovereign rights and security interests, and we will continue to make responsible efforts toward establishing a multipolar international order based on independence and justice.”
After their summit in Wilmington, Delaware, on the 21st, the leaders of the four Quad countries adopted the Wilmington Declaration, which condemned North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and its repeated ballistic missile launches, reaffirming their commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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