Pyongyang may interpret the US-South Korean exercise Ulchi Freedom Shield as a provocation and mobilize its nuclear deterrence force, Russia’s Ambassador to North Korea, Alexander Matsegora, told TASS on Monday.
He drew attention to the fact that in his speech on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War on July 27, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, spoke about Washington’s invariable hostility towards the DPRK and that his country, in order to ensure its security, was “ready to both a dialogue with the United States and to any military clashes with it.”
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