PYONGYANG, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Monday accused Japan of abetting war threats against Pyongyang by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The official daily Rodong Sinmun said that while the United States has decided to sell AIM-12OC-7 missiles to Japan, some Japanese cabinet ministers have also inspected an interceptor missile system of the self-defense force to highlight alleged missile threats from the DPRK.
Japan is "directly or indirectly abetting the war hysteria" of the United States which has sent nuclear carrier strike groups, nuclear submarines and nuclear strategic bombers to the Korean peninsula after Trump has "let loose a torrent of unheard of rubbish against DPRK," it said.
"The aim (of Japan) is to drive the situation into the outbreak of war by constantly upsetting Trump ... to catch fish in troubled waters," it added.
Trump has threatened to "totally destroy" DPRK if the latter continues its nuclear and missile programs, when he made a speech at the U.N. General Assembly last month.
The United States and South Korea Monday also kicked off a large-scale naval exercise in waters off the Korean peninsula with the participation of a nuclear strike group, a nuclear submarine and tens of thousands of troops from both sides.
