North Korea: "US and Seoul push tensions to the brink of nuclear war"

The never dormant conflicts are rekindled in the delicate Asian chessboard.

Indeed, North Korea today accused Seoul and Washington of "pushing tensions in the region to the brink of nuclear war".

This was reported by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, underlining that Kim Jong-Un's regime "will continue to strengthen its self-defense capabilities".

In a report released by the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Institute for American Studies, Pyongyang compared military tensions in the region to the night before the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, criticizing the US and South Korea for their «delusional anti-communist military confrontation» and the continuous «rhetorical threats».

Yesterday, we learn from KCNA, an agency that disseminates the news of the North Korean authorities, 120 thousand people took part in the demonstrations of the "Day of the joint struggle against the United States" in Pyongyang. In the square workers and young people, as well as the secretaries of the Workers' Party Ri Il-hwan and Pak

Thae-song. The mobilization was called in memory of the beginning of the Korean War, which broke out on June 25, 1950, when Northern troops led by tanks invaded the South, with the US and 20 other allied countries deciding to fight alongside of Seoul under the auspices of the United Nations.

(Unioneonline/lf)