”The U.S. is the worst in the world” - North Korea criticizes Trump administration for the first time - Bank of Korea

North Korea has officially criticized the United States as "the most evil country in the world" for the first time since the start of President Trump's second term. In response to Secretary of State Rubio's "rogue nation" remarks.
It was analyzed that this was a "war of nerves" by North Korea trying to get as much as possible out of President Trump's proposal for dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Eun.
According to the Korean Central News Agency, on the 2nd, a spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement titled "The world's most evil country has no right to mess with other countries," "Recently, U.S. Secretary of State
"When Rubio was listing the new U.S. administration's foreign policy in an interview with a media outlet, he made the unreasonable remark that desecrated our country as a 'rogue state.'"
The spokesman added, "The hostile words and actions of the person in charge of US foreign policy reaffirm the US's hostile policy towards North Korea, which has not changed at all from yesterday to today.
"The Secretary of State's hostile words and actions, which seek to wantonly undermine the rights of a sovereign nation, are a severe political provocation that completely contradicts the principles of international law, which are centered on respect for sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs," he said.
"We will never tolerate any provocative actions by the United States, which has always been and will continue to be hostile, and will respond strongly as always," he said.
Prior to this, US Secretary of State Rubio said in an interview with a US journalist on the 30th of last month (local time), "We are currently facing China, and to some extent Russia.
"We are in a situation where we have to deal with rogue nations like Iran and North Korea," he said. Rubio also called North Korea a "rogue nation" during his Senate confirmation hearing.
"It is interesting to see how much interest the Kim Jong Un regime is showing in the cabinet of the Trump administration, which is in its second term, and how sensitively it is responding to them," said Lim Ul-chul, a professor at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies at Kyungnam University.
"This is a clear indication of the situation," he said, adding, "It may be a warning that unless someone like Secretary Rubio stops his hostile rhetoric against North Korea, we should not expect a U.S.-North Korea summit."
As in his first term, he has set preconditions for talks that North Korea wants, such as respect for its sovereignty and non-interference in its internal affairs.
Experts say these demands will continue to be made until the Trump administration's second term in office has a set policy on North Korea.
North Korea has not made any clear stance on President Trump's remarks about the country being a "nuclear power" or his demand for dialogue.
On the same day, North Korea issued a public statement from the Institute for Disarmament and Peace Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stating that "reckless military expansion has led to the collapse of our own nation."
"The hegemonic plot of the new US administration to maintain military hegemony over the world and crush independent sovereign nations has been clearly expressed since the first day of its inauguration," he said.
Yang Moo-jin, president of the Graduate School of North Korean Studies at the University of North Korea, said, "North Korea is looking to develop a new missile defense system for the defense of the homeland."
"The construction of a nuclear defense system gives legitimacy to the deterrent effect of nuclear missiles," he said, adding, "This may be an attempt to create a pretext for U.S.-North Korea negotiations."