A spokesperson for North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged on Saturday United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken to "attach importance to the security concerns" of Pyongyang and Moscow, criticizing remarks he made during his most recent visit to Seoul.
The North Korean official stressed that Washington should leave the Indo-Pacific region for the sake of restoring peace and called on the US to "abandon the hostile policy" against Russia and North Korea and the "Cold War mentality and withdraw the political provocations, military threats and strategic pressure."
"The equal and reciprocal cooperation among ... independent sovereign states is playing a pivotal role in defending peace and stability not only in the Korean peninsula and the region but also in the world. The U.S. underestimation of the righteous international community's solidarity and unity is the main cause of the failure of its present miserable foreign policy," Pyongyang's spokesperson underscored, according to North Korean state-run media.
