3 May 2021
The Foreign Ministry of North Korea responded on Sunday, nearly a week later, to a passing reference President Joe Biden made to the country in his first speech to Congress as president, calling his words “intolerable.”
North Korea’s government-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) published remarks by senior American relations diplomat Kwon Jong-gun in which he described Biden’s words as a “blunder” and a “slip of the tongue.” Given that Biden had allegedly threatened Pyongyang, Kwon argued, North Korea would have to retaliate and place the U.S. in a “very grave situation.”
North Korea and the United States have technically been at war since 1950, when the Korean War began. While active hostilities ended in 1953, no side ever signed a peace treaty. Tensions have remained high for decades, though Pyongyang has been notably quiet in its usual threats to America over the past year, which experts have attributed to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
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North Korea Slams Biden s New Approach to Diplomacy
Voice of America
02 May 2021, 16:05 GMT+10
SEOUL - North Korea has lashed out at President Joe Biden, warning the U.S. will face a very grave situation, after the White House announced the broad outlines of its plan for diplomacy with Pyongyang.
The statement, issued Sunday by a senior North Korean diplomat, was the country s first official reaction to the Biden administration s just-completed North Korea policy review, which expresses an openness to talks with the nuclear-armed country.
Kwon Jong Gun, director general of the Department of U.S. Affairs of the North s Foreign Ministry, dismissed the U.S. approach as a spurious signboard for covering up its hostile acts against the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, the country s official name.
Seoul [South Korea], May 2 (ANI): After US President Joe Biden in his first congressional address last week termed Pyongyang's nuclear programme as a "serious threat" to Washington, North Korea has warned the US of 'worse crisis beyond control'.