Pyongyang threatens "strategic countermeasures" following NATO summit

North Korea called out the NATO summit declaration condemning North Korea's arms supplies to Russia an as an “illegal document” and declared its readiness to step up decisive strategic counteraction to the United States and NATO.

That’s according to the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, the North Korean state news agency KCNA reports, as seen by Ukrinform.

The DPRK's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it "most strongly denounces and rejects" the Washington Summit declaration, labeling it "an illegal document that violates the legitimate rights of independent sovereign states and (…) incites new Cold War and military confrontation on a global scale."

Pyongyang has traditionally accused the United States and NATO of conspiring to destroy North Korea and echoed a Russian propaganda narrative claiming it was the Alliance that destroyed the security environment in Europe with its eastward expansion policy.

"We solemnly warn that NATO's strategy for "globalization", pursued by the U.S., may certainly bring the danger of a worldwide war. (...) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will never overlook or avoid the looming grave threat but thoroughly deter the aggression and war threat with stronger level of strategic counteraction and defend peace and security in the region and the rest of the world," said the North Korean Foreign Ministry.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that the coalition of convenience of the authoritarian regimes of Russia, the DPRK, and Iran along with China’s economic support for Russia means a global strategic shift that threatens global security.