23 June 2017

News Story: DPRK says situation at Korean peninsula returns to same dangerous level as April

PYONGYANG, June 22 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Thursday that the situation at the Korean peninsula has returned to an extremely dangerous level similar to that in April, due to a political crisis U.S. President Donald Trump faces at home.

The official daily Rodong Sinmum said in an article that because Trump is in the grip of a "worst ruling crisis", "no one can predict what a reckless action he will take."

"It is the trite method of successive U.S. rulers to find a way out in unleashing an aggression war whenever the ruling crisis was aggravated," said the newspaper of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.

Due to the "hysterical" action of Trump, the same extremely dangerous situation as the one in April when the United States was rumored to mount a "preemptive strike at the North," it said.

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