SEOUL, November 19. /TASS/. The trilateral cooperation between South Korea, the United States and Japan has no future as it only widens the gap in Northeastern Asia, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, commenting on the recent meetings between the three nations’ leaders in Lima.
On November 15, US President Joe Biden met with his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Peru. The sides announced the establishment of a "tripartite cooperation office" and the US leader declared a new era of trilateral cooperation. KCNA slammed this secretariat as "an institutional foundation for expanding the U.S.-led military bloc in the Asia-Pacific region."
The agency recalled that the trilateral summit in Lima coincided with the Freedom Edge drills near the Korean Peninsula involving the three nations’ troops. The tripartite office, according to the agency, is geared to continue the hostile policy against North Korea, which is tilting the balance of power on the Korean Peninsula, and "bequeath it as 'legacy' to their next regimes."
"Such moves of the US, Japan and the ROK (Republic of Korea - TASS) for securing permanent 'three-party cooperation' have sown the seed of discord and confrontation deeper into the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region. This is a revelation of the scheme to seize the political and military supremacy in the region by dint of the military bloc that has evolved into a nuclear alliance," KCNA emphasized.
"In the final analysis, the 'tripartite cooperation era' billed by the US, Japan and the ROK as the greatest, has turned into the 'era of tripartite ruin,'" it pointed out. "But such unprecedented confrontational hysteria of the hostile states has brought such undesirable catastrophic results as the DPRK's possession of powerful sighting telescope and ICBMs targeting the US at all times and the establishment of a just strategic structure in Northeast Asia."
"Among those who met in Camp David last August allegedly to open up an 'era of completely new three-party cooperation,' one has already been ousted from his premiership and another one will soon leave the Oval Office and the last one is on the verge of being impeached, for being forsaken by the public," the agency noted. "Such miserable fates of the pioneers of the 'three-party cooperation' illustrate that the 'three-party cooperation era' has no future."
"Their tightening of ill-minded military cooperation will only bring the DPRK's strong and regular retaliatory actions," it added.