US-China relations: North Korea slams ‘begging’ Blinken for trying to ‘press and restrain’ Beijing
- The US secretary of states’s ‘recent junket can never be judged otherwise than a disgraceful begging trip’, said a commentary carried by state media
- Washington’s ‘anti-China complexes’ like the Quad and Aukus were responsible for escalating tensions, the Korean Central News Agency commentary said
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In a commentary carried by the North’s Korean Central News Agency, Jong Yong-hak, whom it described as an international-affairs analyst, said the rare visit was aimed at begging for the relaxation of tensions as the “attempt to press and restrain China may become a boomerang striking a fatal blow to the US economy”.
“In a word, the US state secretary’s recent junket can never be judged otherwise than a disgraceful begging trip of the provoker admitting the failure of the policy of putting pressure on China,” the commentary said.
“It is the height of the double-dealing and impudence peculiar to the US to provoke first and then talk about the so-called ‘responsible control over divergence of opinion,’” the commentary said.