DPRK condemns UK defense secretary

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday lashed out at British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson after he called Pyongyang a threat to London, according to Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

The DPRK's foreign ministry on Friday also said the new US strategic goal is to dominate the world again through recently published national security strategy.

DPRK slams British defense chief

KCNA quoted a spokesperson of the Korea-Europe Association as saying that on December 19 Williamson told a British newspaper that "the pariah regime is on the pathway to have ballistic missiles that could strike London" and that "this is a real threat to the UK."

British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson at Downing Street, London, Britain, November 2, 2017. /Reuters Photo

Williamson also reportedly said, "Britain has to step up in terms of dealing with it."

"We are shocked that the current defense secretary of Britain, right after taking office, expressed his view that our state nuclear force poses a 'threat to London,'" said the spokesman of the official DPRK organ in charge of developing relations with European countries.

The spokesman added that the defense secretary of a country should at least have the ability to see what constitutes a real threat, saying "the US is the rogue state that threatens to use force on anyone who even slightly offends it."

The spokesman's remarks came one day after the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution to further tighten sanctions against the DPRK in response to its ballistic missile launch late last month.

The second day of 5th Conference of Cell Chairpersons of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) is held on Dec 22 in Pyongyang. The DPRK's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released the photo on December 23, 2017. /Reuters Photo

On November 9, the DPRK announced that it had successfully test-fired a newly developed "Hwasong-15" Intercontinental Ballistic Missile capable of striking the entire US mainland.

'Trump's new security strategy aims to dominate world'

A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK also said that the national security strategy is "a typical outcome of the Yankee-style arrogance seeking total subordination of the whole world to the interests of the US."

US President Donald Trump published Monday his first national security strategy, which regards the DPRK's nuclear and missile programs as serious threats. Trump said all options were on the table when dealing with a DPRK threat.

"It is also a criminal document which clearly reflects the gangster-like nature of Trump who likes to create trouble and fish in troubled waters," said the DPRK spokesman in a statement.

President Trump delivers remarks regarding the Administration's National Security Strategy on December 18, 2017. /Reuters Photo

The spokesman said the "America first" policy is nothing but "the proclamation of aggression aimed at holding sway over the world according to its taste and at its own free will."

The spokesman said there is no change in "the strategic goal" of the United States to achieve hegemony over the world by means of force and "the goal to stifle our country and turn the entire Korean Peninsula into an outpost for seeking that hegemony."

The spokesman also accused the United States of having gone back on all the agreements reached with the DPRK in the past two decades.

"We held bilateral talks with the US and various forms of multilateral talks ... over the last two decades and during the course we had reached some agreements. However, the previous US administrations threw all the agreements reached with us into a garbage can like waste paper," the spokesman said.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency