North Korea slammed a new submarine deal between the U.S., Australia and the U.K. on Monday, threatening countermeasures if the deal impacts North Korea’s national security in any way.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency published an interview with a ranking foreign ministry official who denounced the pact, called AUKUS, for triggering a nuclear arms race in Asia.

The “extremely undesirable and dangerous” AUKUS “will upset the strategic balance in the Asia-Pacific region and trigger off a chain of nuclear arms race,” the interviewee reportedly said. “The U.S. double-dealing attitude getting all the more pronounced after the emergence of