TOKYO: North Korea has accused the United States of “malicious hostility” by sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and its associated strike group to Busan on the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula.

Kim Kang-il, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, said: “We are witnessing America’s reckless choices and actions again.” He mocked as a pretense that the US move was to celebrate the Korea-US alliance or for maintenance, and suggested that it was part of a greater plot to try and destabilize the North.

“The United States and its minions, which have malicious hostility and suspicion as a congenital disease, are heinous confrontation fanatics,” Kim said, referring to nuclear bomb training at the South Korea-US Nuclear Consultative Group meeting on June 10, and the US and South Korean special alliance air training from June 17 to 20.

“It is an extremely dangerous adventure that the United States and South Korea are obsessed with armed demonstrations in front of us,” Kim said. “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is fully open to the possibility of showing off all of its overwhelming and new deterrents against the provocative moves of the United States and South Korea.”