“This launch is a brazen violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions and needlessly raises tensions and risks destabilizing the security situation in the region,” National Security Council spokesperson Adam Hodge said in a statement.
Currently, the relations between both the Korean countries are facing a setback with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un calling for increased weapon development, including tactical nukes.
“The door has not closed on diplomacy, but Pyongyang must immediately cease its destabilizing actions and instead choose diplomatic engagement,” he continued, stressing the United States will “take all necessary measures” to ensure its security and that of its allies South Korea and Japan.
North Korea condemns US for violating airspace
On Monday, North Korea had accused the United States of violating its airspace by carrying out surveillance flights and stated that, even though Pyongyang was exercising restraint, and warned it may shoot down such flights.
It further condemned the plans of Washington of deploying a nuclear missile submarine near the Korean peninsula. North Korea’s Ministry of National Defence spokesperson said “provocative” flights were flown by US spy aircraft this month, as one reconnaissance plane intruded into the country’s airspace over the East Sea “several times”.
“There is no guarantee that such a shocking accident as the downing of the US Air Force strategic reconnaissance plane will not happen in the East Sea of Korea,” said the spokesperson in a statement, released by the official Korean Central News Agency.
“Whether the extreme situation, desired by nobody, is created or not on the Korean peninsula depends on the future action of the US, and if any sudden situation happens … the US will be held totally accountable for it,” it added.
