US warns North Korea on reckless provocations
4 April 2013 8:55 AM IST
The Obama administration on Tuesday warned North Korea to halt a recent spate of ‘unacceptable’ rhetoric and actions that Secretary of State John Kerry called ‘provocative, dangerous and reckless.’ Kerry also vowed that the United States would defend itself and its allies South Korea and Japan from North Korean threats.
‘We have heard an extraordinary amount of unacceptable rhetoric from the North Korean government in the last few days,’ Kerry told reporters at a joint news conference with visiting South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.
‘The bottom line very simply is that what Kim Jong-Un has been choosing to do is provocative, it is dangerous, reckless, and the United States will not accept the DPRK as a nuclear state,’ Kerry said, referring to North Korea’s young new leader and the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
‘The United States will do what is necessary to defend us and ourselves and our allies,’ he said. ‘We are fully prepared and capable of doing so and the DPRK understands that.’
His comments came as North Korea started off an almost daily string of threats toward the US, South Korea and Japan.
‘We have heard an extraordinary amount of unacceptable rhetoric from the North Korean government in the last few days,’ Kerry told reporters at a joint news conference with visiting South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.
‘The bottom line very simply is that what Kim Jong-Un has been choosing to do is provocative, it is dangerous, reckless, and the United States will not accept the DPRK as a nuclear state,’ Kerry said, referring to North Korea’s young new leader and the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
‘The United States will do what is necessary to defend us and ourselves and our allies,’ he said. ‘We are fully prepared and capable of doing so and the DPRK understands that.’
His comments came as North Korea started off an almost daily string of threats toward the US, South Korea and Japan.
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