North Korea slams U.S. for allowing Seoul to build up missile capability

“It is a serious blunder for [the United States] to pressurize the DPRK by creating asymmetric imbalance in and around the Korean Peninsula,” Kim, the North Korean commentator, wrote. “The U.S. act of giving free ‘missile’ rein to South Korea is all meant to spark off [an] arms race … and check the development of the DPRK.”