North Korea accuses US of building an ‘Asian Nato’ ahead of security talks

North Korean state media has accused the US and allies of attempting to form an “Asian Nato” to contain the regime. Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images

North Korea has accused the US and its allies of launching a “sinister” attempt to form an “Asian Nato” to contain the regime, hours before Joe Biden and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts meet for security talks.

“The US is hellbent on the military cooperation with its stooges in disregard of the primary security demand and concern by Asia-Pacific countries,” North Korea’s state news agency, KCNA said, on Wednesday.