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N. Korea condemns G7 meeting of defense ministers
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Friday denounced the latest meeting of defense ministers of the Group of Seven (G7), claiming what it called the "war contractor group" took issue with North Korea's policy of nuclear forces.
The seven advanced nations held their first meeting of defense ministers last week in the Italian city of Naples. In a joint statement, they reaffirmed their "unwavering" support for Ukraine and also condemned North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs while expressing their concern about North Korea's increasing military cooperation with Russia.
Calling the G7 the "war contractor group," North Korea claimed the group dealt with global security issues even though it has no power to supervise and control sovereign states.
"The more desperately G7, only a 'shadow' of the U.S., slanders the DPRK's policy of the state nuclear force without any sense of orientation, the more clearly it will reveal its criminal entity as a harasser of peace, confrontation maniac and war merchant," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.
North Korea said the G7 has interfered in Korean Peninsula issues as a "first-class servitor" for ensuring the U.S.-led hegemony and this means the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military expansion.
"Explicitly speaking again, those who seek to deprive the inviolable right of the DPRK will have to pay a high price for it," the report said.
The North's condemnation came as South Korea and the U.S. have confirmed that some 3,000 North Korean troops were sent to eastern Russia earlier this month in a sign of deepening military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow.
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