SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korean state media has warned that strengthening trilateral ties with Washington risks turning the people of South Korea and Japan into ‘cannon fodder’ for a nuclear attack.

An unsigned commentary in state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday said that military threats from the United States have forced the North into ‘bolstering up its nuclear war deterrence.’

‘The DPRK’s ‘nuclear threat,’ touted by the U.S., is an inevitable result of the latter’s deep-rooted hostile policy toward the former that has lasted decades after decades and generation after generation,’ the KCNA article said.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the official name of North Korea.

The article added that growing security ties among the United States, Japan and Tokyo in response to North Korean threats has created a ‘serious tripartite security crisis’ in the region.

‘The strengthened tripartite security cooperation trumpeted by the U.S. has only made the peoples of Japan and the puppet ROK cannon fodder of nuclear war,’ the article said, using the official acronym for South Korea…”