North Korean Media Criticizes ROK-US Defense Working Group as a "Noose for Pressuring North Korea"

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo In-ho] North Korea criticized the South Korea-U.S. working-level consultation initiative, calling the Defense Working Group a tool for pressure against North Korea and for military expansion into the Indo-Pacific region.

On the 24th, North Korea's external propaganda outlet Meori stated in an article titled "A Series of Nooses" that the United States is using the "Defense Working Group" currently being discussed by South Korea and the U.S. to tighten its grip on South Korea's defense sector, apply military pressure on North Korea, and further strengthen the realization of the Indo-Pacific strategy.

It has been reported that the South Korea-U.S. military authorities are discussing the launch of a working group to derive cooperation measures in the defense sector within the New Southern Policy and Indo-Pacific strategy, following the 20th Integrated Defense Dialogue (KIDD) meeting held last month.

North Korea criticized, "From the U.S. perspective, a more concrete noose was needed to better tame South Korea as their cannon fodder."

North Korea previously referred to the South Korea-U.S. working group for North Korea coordination, which operated during the Donald Trump administration, to criticize the South.

The outlet claimed, "Through the (South Korea-U.S. working group), South Korea tightened the noose of subjugation thrown by the U.S. and became a slave who did whatever the U.S. ordered without discrimination, unable to act on its own will without approval."

It further condemned, "South Korea's blind faith and submissive mindset toward the U.S. led to the disgraceful behavior of meekly putting its head into another noose without protest."

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