North Korea has denounced President Barack Obama’s visit to South Korea set to take place this week.
 
The North’s Foreign Ministry said Obama’s planned Asia trip is part of Washington’s pivot-to-Asia strategy aimed at maintaining the U.S’s political and military superiority in the region.
 
In a statement delivered on Monday by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, the ministry called Obama’s visit a dangerous trip. It added the two-day visit could escalate confrontation and bring “dark clouds of a nuclear race” to an already unstable region.
 
The ministry claimed the U.S. carries out joint military exercises with South Korea in order to rationalize its military schemes and to make the North appear confrontational.
 
It added if the U.S. continues to pursue supremacy in the Asia-Pacific region and seeks to have the North sacrifice its national interests, efforts to resume the six-way nuclear talks would face negative effects.