By Hyonhee Shin

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea criticised a latest U.S-South Korea settlement to bolster the deployment of American strategic belongings within the area for escalating pressure to the “brink of a nuclear warfare,” state media KCNA mentioned on Monday.

U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held a summit final week, throughout which Biden pledged to provide Seoul extra perception into its nuclear planning over any battle with North Korea as nervousness grows over Pyongyang’s weapons programmes and the American nuclear umbrella.

Each leaders agreed to strengthen South Korea’s defences and usually deploy U.S. strategic belongings. As a part of the efforts, a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine will go to South Korea for the primary time because the Eighties.

KCNA mentioned the settlement stipulated the allies’ willingness to take “essentially the most hostile and aggressive motion” towards North Korea, citing Choe Ju Hyon, whom it described as a world safety analyst.

The stationing of American strategic belongings has positioned the state of affairs of the Korean peninsula in a “quagmire of instability,” and was supposed to construct “aggressive and unique army blocs” within the area, it mentioned.

“It’s simply aimed to dodge the duty for the worst-ever nuclear-related crimes it has dedicated by systematically destroying and violating the nuclear non-proliferation system, and specifically, pushing the state of affairs of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of a nuclear warfare,” KCNA mentioned.

“It’s the hegemonic sinister goal pursued by the U.S. to show the entire of South Korea into its greatest nuclear warfare outpost within the Far East and successfully use it for attaining its technique for dominating the world.”

Pyongyang has reacted angrily to the Yoon-Biden summit, saying it consolidated its conviction to excellent its “nuclear warfare deterrent.”