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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) \u2014 North Korea on Monday accused the United States of hostility and demanded the Biden administration permanently end joint military exercises with South Korea even as it continued its recent streak of weapons tests apparently aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korean Ambassador Kim Song\u2019s comments on the last day of the U.N. General Assembly came shortly after South Korea\u2019s military said the North fired an unidentified projectile<\/a> into its eastern waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North\u2019s latest test, which followed two previous rounds of missile tests<\/a> this month, indicated the country is returning to its tried-and-true technique of mixing weapons demonstrations and peace offers to wrest concessions amid long-stalled negotiations over its nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seoul\u2019s Joint Chiefs of Staff didn\u2019t immediately say what the North launched in its latest test, which took place early Tuesday on the Korean Peninsula, or how far the weapon flew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking through a translator, Kim justified North Korea\u2019s development of a \u201cwar deterrent\u201d as a necessity to defend against U.S. threats, and also accused of South Korea of betraying inter-Korean peace agreements by prioritizing its Western ally over \u201cnational harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He demanded that the United States \u201cpermanently\u201d stop its military exercises<\/a> with South Korea, which the North has traditionally described as invasion rehearsals, and end the deployment of U.S. strategic weapons to the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe possible outbreak of a new war on the Korean Peninsula is contained not because of the U.S.\u2019s mercy on the DPRK, it is because our state is growing a reliable deterrent that can control the hostile forces in an attempted military invasion,\u201d Kim said, referring to North Korea by the abbreviation of its formal name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called for the United States to contribute to the peace and stability of the peninsula and the world by withdrawing an \u201canachronistic, hostile policy towards the DPRK in a bold and complete manner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea mainly uses the term \u201chostile policy\u201d to refer to U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons program and the joint U.S.-South Korea military drills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf (the United States) is really desirous of peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula, they should take the first step towards giving up its hostile policy against the DPRK by stopping permanently the joint military exercises and the deployment of all kinds of strategic weapons which are leveled at the DPRK in and around the Korean Peninsula,\u201d Kim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Korean army soldiers patrol along the barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Saturday that her country will take steps to repair ties with South Korea, and may even discuss another summit between their leaders, if the South drops what she described as hostility and double standards. (AP Photo\/Ahn Young-joon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The United States keeps about 28,000 troops in South Korea to help deter potential aggression from North Korea. The allies say their drills are defensive in nature, but they have canceled or downsized them in recent years to create space for diplomacy or in pandemic response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea\u2019s nuclear program has seemed to recede in attention at this year\u2019s General Assembly in the face of new and broader challenges like COVID-19 and rising U.S.-China tensions, and the meeting ended without meaningful new proposals to break the diplomatic stalemate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But North Korea usually hates being ignored. After months of relative quiet, the country this month tested new cruise missiles it eventually plans to arm with nuclear warheads and launched ballistic missiles from a train. It then offered to improve relations with South Korea if certain conditions are met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysts say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is using the South\u2019s desire for inter-Korean engagement to pressure Seoul to extract concessions from the Biden administration on his behalf as he renews an attempt to leverage his nuclear weapons for badly needed economic and security benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their speeches at the General Assembly last week, both President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in expressed hopes to diplomatically resolve the standoff with North Korea while sidestepping the fresh tensions created by the North\u2019s latest tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden, whose pullout from Afghanistan<\/a> underscored a broader shift in U.S. focus from counterterrorism and so-called rogue states like North Korea and Iran to confronting a rising authoritarian superpower in China, said his administration would seek \u201cserious and sustained diplomacy\u201d to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moon, who wants North Korea to remain a priority in Washington, made a more ambitious push to break the diplomatic deadlock, calling for the leaders of the Koreas, the United States and China to declare an end to the Korean War<\/a>. The 1950-53 conflict, in which North Korea and ally China faced off against South Korea and U.S.-led U.N. forces, ended with an armistice, but there was never a peace treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea rebuffed Moon\u2019s offer last week, saying such a declaration would end up being a \u201csmokescreen\u201d to cover up U.S. hostility. But Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of the North Korean leader, said her country will take steps to repair ties with the South, and may even discuss another summit between their leaders \u2014 if Seoul drops its hostility and public criticism about North Korean military developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nuclear negotiations have stalled since the collapse of a meeting between Kim Jong Un and former President Donald Trump in February 2019, when the Americans rejected the North\u2019s demands for a major removal of U.S.-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons program in exchange for dismantling an aging nuclear facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim in recent political speeches has vowed to bolster his nuclear deterrent in face of U.S. pressure. His government has so far rejected the Biden administration\u2019s offer to resume talks without preconditions, saying that Washington must abandon its hostile policy first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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