North Korea’s top diplomat Choe Son Hui denounced the U.S. and the NATO “war machine” as threats to world peace at a security forum in Belarus on Tuesday, urging Eurasian states to unite to counter Washington’s “high-handedness.”

The DPRK foreign minister’s remarks at the Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security, hosted by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, came as U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders gather in South Korea this week for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

“In the western part of the Eurasian region, NATO, the biggest war machine looms anti-Russian confrontational hysteria, while in the eastern part