North Korea, mass demonstrations against the US: "they are imperialists"

120 thousand North Koreans took to the streets in the capital, Pyongyang, to demonstrate against "US imperialism" and promising a "war of revenge".The large rally took place at the Pyongyang stadium on the occasion of the celebrations for the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War (1950-53). Young people and workers - all wearing anti-Covid masks on their faces - filled the stands with protest signs against the United States. "Let's make the US imperialists pay dearly for the blood shed by the Korean nation!", "The US is the leader of war and slaughter", and again, "The US is the destroyer of peace".

From the photos transmitted by the Korean Central News Agency, we see a stadium packed with people, some of whom hold placards with the inscriptions: "The entire American continent is within our range" and "the imperialist US is the destroyer of peace". The secretaries of the governing Workers' Party of Korea also took part in the demonstrations."The United States and South Korea are doing everything possible to trigger a nuclear war". Thus the North Korean Foreign Ministry compared the current situation on the peninsula to that which triggered the Korean War of 1950-53, of which it occurs these days the anniversary.

Through a report published by the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Institute for American Studies and released by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the Pyongyang government has criticized South Korea and the United States for their "delusional anti-communist military confrontation" and for "rhetorical threats", accusing them of pushing pressure in the area to the limit, which has reached "the brink of nuclear war".

The note goes on to compare military tensions in the region to those prior to the outbreak of the Korean War, and affirms that the country will continue to strengthen its defense capabilities in response to "worrying hostile acts" and violations of "sovereignty and security" brought forward from the US. The communiqué ends with a warning: a war on the peninsula "would rapidly expand into a world war and a thermonuclear war without precedent in the world", causing "the most catastrophic and irreversible consequences" to peace and security in the region and in the rest of the world.

"Such bellicose moves by the United States have pushed military tensions in the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia, already plunged into an extremely volatile situation, to the brink of nuclear war," reads the English-language report published by the news agency. KCNA State.According to North Korea, the United States is "resorting to worrying hostile acts, recklessly encroaching on the sovereignty and security" of the country more than ever this year and has reached a threshold that can no longer be tolerated.

Pyongyang then warned that a war on the peninsula "would rapidly expand into a world war and a thermonuclear war unprecedented in the world", causing "the most catastrophic and irreversible consequences" to peace and security in the region and the rest of the world.North Korea will continue to accelerate efforts to strengthen "its self-defense capabilities to safeguard its sovereignty" unless the United States withdraws its "anachronistic hostile policy" and persistent military threat against the North, it said. still in the report.