The large-scale US strikes were launched by President Donald Trump last week targeting Iran-aligned Houthis over the group’s attacks on Red Sea shipping. The Houthi-run health ministry said the strikes killed at least 53 people including women and children.
The North Korean ambassador, Ma Dong Hui, who the KCNA state news agency said was also Pyongyang’s envoy to Egypt, said Washington “indiscriminately” targeted civilians and property by mobilizing air and navy forces including an aircraft carrier.
“The military attack by the United States is a violent violation of the UN Charter and international law, and is a blatant infringement on the territorial sovereignty of another country that cannot be justified by any means,” Ma said.
“I express grave concern about the illegal and reckless military actions by the United States, which is obsessed with realizing geopolitical ambitions ... and I strongly condemn and reject them.”
The US Defense Department said the strikes hit more than 30 sites and involved fighter jets launched from a carrier in the Red Sea.
North Korea has threatened the United States that their "war reinforcements" to Northeast Asia will be "contained and wiped out" while Japan is preparing to deploy long-range missiles that are capable of hitting targets in Pyongyang and China.
The US Marine Corps sent additional F-35B stealth fighter aircraft to Iwakuni in Japan from Arizona on March 8.
Pyongyang's state-run media Korean Central News Agency said that Washington's recent actions cement its place as a "hostile and confrontational entity."
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"The additional deployment of offensive war reinforcements to cope with contingency in the Korean Peninsula is hourly increasing the unpredictability of actual armed conflict and a nuclear war," KCNA added.
"The U.S. anti-communist outposts...are within the constant sighting and striking range of the DPRK's indefinite forces," it said. "Any war reinforcements of the U.S. will be completely contained and wiped out."
"The U.S. desperate moves of military adventurism aimed to create military imbalance and incite a new geopolitical conflict in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia provide [North Korea] with reasonable justification and the urgent need to give tougher warning of action," the statement continued.
Trump has reiterated that denuclearizing North Korea is one of his main priorities.
Tension between the two Koreas is at an all-time high after the 2018 North-South military pact fell last year and Kim sent thousands of North Korean troops to aid Russia's war in Ukraine as part of a defense pact he signed with President Vladimir Putin.
"It is not unreasonable to imagine that an accidental spark might plunge the Korean peninsula and the region and the rest of the world into a new armed conflict," KCNA had said last week.
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