North Korea Slams U.S. for Sparking ‘New Cold War’ with Quad and AUKUS Alliances

North Korea accused the United States of deliberately exacerbating tensions by organizing alliances such as the Quad (a security dialogue between the U.S., Japan, Australia, and India) and AUKUS (a security pact among the U.S., U.K., and Australia).

North Korea’s state-run newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, published a six-page article titled “The U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy Pursuing Confrontation and Destroying Peace.” The article asserts that the U.S. aims to expand the Quad and AUKUS while regularizing military cooperation with South Korea, Japan, and Australia to forge a large military alliance.

The newspaper argued that while the U.S. packages its Indo-Pacific strategy as building a “free and open Indo-Pacific region” and ensuring “peace, security, and prosperity for the world,” its goal is to coerce nations into siding with it and mobilize followers to encircle and suppress Russia and China, thereby preserving its global dominance.

It further emphasized that the U.S.’s aggressive military posture in the Indo-Pacific has heightened regional tensions and poses a threat to peace and security. It warned that America’s push for military dominance is creating a “new Cold War” in the Asia-Pacific region, with the risk of war growing.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, leaders of the Quad nations issued the Wilmington Declaration after their summit in Wilmington, Delaware. This declaration condemned North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and recent missile provocations and reaffirmed its commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.