DPRK says situation at Korean peninsula returns to same dangerous level as April

Source: Xinhua| 2017-06-22 18:49:11|Editor: ying
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PYONGYANG, June 22 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday that the situation at the Korean peninsula has returned to an extremely dangerous level similar to that in April, due to a political crisis U.S. President Donald Trump faces at home.

The official daily Rodong Sinmum said in an article that because Trump is in the grip of a "worst ruling crisis", "no one can predict what a reckless action he will take."

"It is the trite method of successive U.S. rulers to find a way out in unleashing an aggression war whenever the ruling crisis was aggravated," said the newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.

Due to the "hysterical" action of Trump, the same extremely dangerous situation as the one in April when the United States was rumored to mount a "preemptive strike at the North," it said.

The DPRK has also accused the United States of bringing nuclear war hysteria to a high level by sending in a deliberately high profile two strategic bombers from the Guam to South Korea early this week.

"Unlike the past when it used to stealthily introduce into South Korea nuclear strategic bombers in order to incite nuclear war atmosphere, the enemies purposely let them fly in the sky above the Korean peninsula for two hours, while revealing the action of B-1B formation, and made it public immediately this time," said the Korean Central News Agency Thursday.

At the same time of the previous action, the United States sent on June 20 into the economic waters of the DPRK in the East Sea of Korea (Sea of Japan) an Aegis destroyer from Japan to carry out open espionage operations, it said.

Tensions rose between the DPRK and the United States after an American student, Otto Warmbier, who had been jailed in the DPRK for one and a half years for convicted anti-DPRK activities during his tourist stay in Pyongyang early last year, died at home on June 19, days after being released by the DPRK for humanitarian reasons last week.

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