A spokesman for North Korea’s Defense Ministry said the U.S. was engaging in 'blackmail” by planning to bring a nuclear-armed submarine to the peninsula and conducting “hostile espionage activities.' North Korea threatens to shoot down U.S. spy planes:
A spokesman for North Korea’s Defense Ministry said the US was engaging in “the most undisguised nuclear blackmail” by planning to bring a nuclear-armed submarine to the peninsula and conducting “hostile espionage activities” by flying spy planes off its east and west coasts, the Korean Central News Agency reported Monday.
That appeared to be a reference to North Korea’s 1969 downing of a US Navy reconnaissance plane the Americans said was in international airspace between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, killing all 31 people aboard. The latest threats stoke concerns just as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit. Yoon said in an interview with the Associated Press that he will seek help from NATO leaders on how to deter Pyongyang from increasing its atomic ambition.South Korea is not a NATO member but Yoon and other leaders will be attending as the bloc and its partners focus attention on support of Ukraine.
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