DPRK accuses US of plotting new war

PYONGYANG - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has accused the United States of plotting to provoke another Korean War by convening a foreign ministers' meeting in Vancouver, Canada.

"The United States, in collusion with Canada, created the scene of a war simulation by summoning the foreign ministers of the countries participated in the Korean War to a meeting," said a spokesman of the Institute for American Studies of the DPRK Foreign Ministry in a statement on Thursday, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

About 20 countries, mostly those which joined the US in its war against the DPRK in the 1950s, participated in the meeting on Jan 15-16. Japan was also involved.