{"id":2371950,"date":"2024-11-22T04:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-warns-us-of-stoking-tensions-and-bringing-countries-to-brink-of-nuclear-war-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T04:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:32:31","slug":"north-korea-warns-us-of-stoking-tensions-and-bringing-countries-to-brink-of-nuclear-war-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-warns-us-of-stoking-tensions-and-bringing-countries-to-brink-of-nuclear-war-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea warns US of stoking tensions and bringing countries to brink of \u2018nuclear war\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-warns-us-of-stoking-tensions-and-bringing-countries-to-brink-of-nuclear-war-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2371950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent speech at a military demonstration, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un accused\u2063 the United States of exacerbating tensions that could lead\u2063 to nuclear war. He criticized the \u2064U.S. for its &#8220;hostile and aggressive&#8221; policies towards \u2063North Korea, stating that the situation on the Korean Peninsula has\u2063 never been more precarious. Kim emphasized that negotiations between the two nations have reached an impasse, with the U.S. showing a preference for\u2062 consolidating its geopolitical influence rather than seeking\u2064 coexistence. The\u200b heightened tensions have \u2063been linked\u200c to the &#8220;Ulchi Freedom Shield&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-warns-us-south-korean-military-drills-could-trigger-thermonuclear-war\/\" title=\"North Korea cautions US and South Korea: Military drills may spark &#039;nuclear war&#039;.\">military drills conducted<\/a> by the U.S. and South Korea, which North Korea perceived as provocative. In\u200b response, the North \u2062has announced plans to enhance\u2064 its nuclear arsenal, justifying this as necessary for maintaining a balance of \u200cpower.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">North Korea warns US of stoking tensions and bringing countries to brink of &lsquo;nuclear war&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1889659\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>During a speech at a military demonstration on Thursday, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un blamed the United States for escalating geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Kim claimed that the United States had engaged in a &ldquo;hostile and aggressive&rdquo; policy with his country and, as a result, the two countries had never been closer to nuclear war than now, according to reports from KCNA, North Korea&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mi-judge-orders-dem-sec-of-state-to-release-all-communications-with-dominion-facebook-apple-amazon-and-google\/\" title=\"MI Judge Orders Dem Sec of State To Release All Communications With Dominion, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google\">state-run media<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Never before have the warring parties on the Korean peninsula faced such a dangerous and acute confrontation that it could escalate into the most destructive thermonuclear war,&rdquo; Kim declared in his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/north-koreas-kim-accuses-us-stoking-tension-warns-nuclear-war-kcna-says-2024-11-21\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kim also warned that his country and the United States had achieved everything it could regarding negotiations. He also said that the United States doesn&rsquo;t want to coexist with his country but rather continue down a path of asserting its geopolitical power and influence over North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have already gone as far as we can on negotiating with the United States, but what we became certain of from the result is not the superpower&rsquo;s willingness to coexist, but its thorough stance of power and aggressive and hostile policy toward us that can never change,&rdquo; Kim said.<\/p>\n<p>While tough talk and increased tensions are nothing new in the relationship between the United States and North Korea, the latest round of hostilities stems from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-south-korea-joint-military-drills-north-13d96116dee891e28c5a92a8f0104a4d\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ulchi Freedom Shield drills<\/a> conducted by the United States and South Korea in August. Even though these drills were described as reactionary and &ldquo;defensive in nature,&rdquo; North Korea considered them a threat.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea&rsquo;s Foreign Ministry issued a statement declaring the exercises as &ldquo;provocative war drills for aggression,&rdquo; the <em>Associated Press<\/em> reported. As such, North Korea rationalized the drills as a reason to increase their weapons and nuclear arsenal as doing allowed the country to &ldquo;constantly maintain the balance of power for preventing a war by stockpiling the greatest deterrence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, in August, North Korea called for an increase of its nuclear weapons to &ldquo;counter threats from the United States&rdquo;. It held a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-tactical-nuclear-weapons-missile-launchers-29674804c22aea7d7de8bb6a6aa5a92d\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ceremony<\/a> marking the &ldquo;delivery of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">250 nuclear-capable missile launchers<\/a> to frontline military units.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Negotiations and confrontation are among our options, but we must be more thoroughly prepared to cope with the latter &mdash; this is the review and conclusion we have derived from the 30-odd years of dealing with the United States,&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-tactical-nuclear-weapons-missile-launchers-29674804c22aea7d7de8bb6a6aa5a92d\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kim said at the time<\/a>. &ldquo;The United States we are now confronting is by no means an administration that remains in power for a tenure of some years, but a hostile state that our descendants, too, will have to counter, generation after generation. This fact testifies to the inevitability of the steady improvement of our defense capability.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Recent revelations that North Korea forged an alliance with Russia and sent troops to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war also amplified tensions between the two countries. The United States condemned North Korea&rsquo;s decision to intervene, while North Korea <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/north-koreas-kim-urges-improved-military-capabilities-war-kcna-says-2024-11-17\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded<\/a> by claiming it was another reason to increase its military weapons and nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1889659\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1889659\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea accuses the US of escalating tensions toward nuclear war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2371951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/north-korea.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3817,32402,32109,45480,45479],"class_list":["post-2371950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-diplomacy","tag-international-relations","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-war","tag-us-tensions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/north-korea.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371954,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371950\/revisions\/2371954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}