Pyotr Ilyichev, Director of the Department of International Organizations at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the United States is obsessed with sanctions in an effort to “carelessly” crack down on North Korea and only exacerbate the situation around the Korean Peninsula. DEA News.
“In their desire to crush the recalcitrant North Koreans, they are strictly focused on both the UN and their own sanctions, which have nothing to do with international legality,” the diplomat said.
According to him, political thought in the United States “does not move” in other directions.
“Insincere appeasements about the desire for peace are not only backed by real actions, but lose all meaning against the backdrop of a clear line of aggravating the situation around the Korean Peninsula. The current leadership of Washington’s main allies in Northeast Asia dutifully follows this militaristic logic. “The West’s indifference to seek ways of easing while respecting the interests of all regional actors is well read in Pyongyang and is provoking new waves of tension.”
Former Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin declarationThat the United States is ready to use nuclear weapons to protect South Korea. According to him, in 2022, the DPRK organized an “unprecedented number of provocations” that destabilized the situation in the region.