SEOUL: Pyongyang on Thursday slammed a plan by South Korea, United States, and Japan to start a real-time data sharing scheme on North Korean missile launches and described it as an “extremely dangerous military act” to invade its soil.
A North Korean state newspaper said that the trilateral sharing of missile warning data, led by Washington, is an extremely dangerous military act that is clearly aimed at pushing the regional political situation into a more intimidating confrontation.
The newspaper called the system a pretext for lighting the fuse of a war to invade North Korea and suppress neighboring nations.
Mira Rapp-Hooper, US National Security Council Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania, said on Wednesday that the trilateral missile warning data sharing plan would be operational in a few days.
The US, Japanese, and South Korean leaders, Joe Biden, Fumio Kishida, and Yoon Suk-yeol respectively, agreed to put the plan into operation at a trilateral meeting held in August at Camp David.
Pyongyang, Washington talks
After the failure of denuclearization talks between Pyongyang and Washington in 2019, North Korea approved a weapons modernization plan in 2021 and since then, has carried out many missile tests, in addition to rejecting the resumption of negotiations and seeking closer relations with Beijing and Moscow.
