TOKYO: North Korea has accused the US and its allies for attempting to form an “Asian NATO” to contain the regime, hours before Joe Biden and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts meet for security talks.
“The US is hellbent on the military cooperation with its stooges in disregard of the primary security demand and concern by Asia-Pacific countries,” North Korea’s state news agency, KCNA said, on Wednesday.
Biden was due to meet the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, and the South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Madrid to discuss the North’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, in the countries’ first bilateral summit for five years.