On May 2, North Korean youth and students reportedly held a rally at the Sinchon “Museum of American War Atrocities” in South Hwanghae Province in response to the new nuclear weapons deal between the United States and South Korea.
According to a statement the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released on Wednesday, protesters burned an effigy of US President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, slamming Yoon’s recent state visit to Washington as a “submissive, nuclear war junket which is the most hostile, aggressive and humiliating.“
Public speakers vowed to “annihilate“ both the US as well as South Korea, to which the KCNA referred as a “puppet group of traitors obsessed with confrontation with their fellow countrymen.“
Outrage over new weapons deal
Presidents Yoon and Biden met at a summit in Washington last week and announced the adoption of the “Washington Declaration“ – a landmark deal to counter the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.
Under the new agreement, the US will enhance its defense commitments by sending nuclear war machinery to South Korea for the first time in 40 years, including a nuclear-armed submarine as well as nuclear-capable bombers.
Edited by Robert Lauler.
