North Korea demands that the US end military exercises

The UN forum was the scene where the North Korean government accused the US of endangering the security of the peninsula.

At the United Nations (UN) forum, the North Korean government demanded that the United States end joint military exercises with South Korean forces because it puts the security of the peninsula at risk.

Pyongyang's ambassador to the UN, Kim Song, lashed out at the United States on Tuesday, arguing that it is aggravating tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Kim said "the stakes are high" on the Korean peninsula more than ever due to "dangerously growing hostility" and the nuclear threat from Washington.

The diplomat participated in a session of the first committee of the UN General Assembly held in New York.

Kim, who serves as the permanent representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (official name) to the UN, renewed the call for the US to immediately suspend joint exercises with the South.

"The United States is now desperate to spread disinformation in the international arena with the goal of demonizing the government of our republic with an absurd fallacy that our self-defense capabilities pose a threat to global peace and security in the region," he noted. the.

He also called on the US to take the lead in nuclear disarmament and refrain from providing a nuclear umbrella or transferring nuclear technology.

The North Korean envoy also took issue with recent joint exercises between Washington and Seoul, including those held last August and sea trials involving the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan last month.

The North Korean representative defended Pyongyang's right to have weapons as stipulated in the UN charter and a means of self-defense to counter "egregious" US hostility.

"Under such unavoidable circumstances, we are forced to decide to hold military exercises under the simulation of a real war at different levels to check and improve the reliability and combat power of our state's war deterrence and send a strong reaction warning military to the enemies," he explained.