The new Asia-Pacific alliance and the US-Australia submarine supply agreement may spark “Nuclear weapons race” in the area, judged today the North Korea.
The USA, the Australia and United Kingdom announced last Wednesday that they are entering into a new strategic partnership to deal with China, called AUKUS, which includes supply of American nuclear-powered submarines in Canberra, taking France out of the game.
Australia’s decision to cancel a contract for the supply of French submarines and to prefer American ones caused outrage in Paris.
“These are extremely undesirable and dangerous actions that could upset the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific region and trigger a nuclear arms race,” a foreign ministry official told North Korea’s official KNA news agency.
The agreement “shows” that the US is the main “culprit” for “endangering the international non-proliferation system”, according to the same source, transmits AMPE.
On Wednesday, the launching two ballistic missilesfrom North Korea at sea followed a few hours after the launch of a ballistic missile by a South Korean submarine. This country became the seventh to have such state-of-the-art technology worldwide.
THE Washington, an ally of Seoul, “condemned” Pyongyang’s launches, which took place “in violation of several UN Security Council resolutions” and pose a “threat to North Korea”‘s neighbors.
North Korea is facing many international sanctions over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Talks on these programs with Washington are suspended after the failure of the summit in Hanoi in February 2019 with the participation of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and then US President Donald Trump.
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