counteraction

Last week, two Republican congressmen introduced the “Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act” to impose sanctions on ICC officials that go after the United States or its allies including Israel.

It warned that North Korea will launch “tough counteraction on an unprecedented level” if South Korea engages in provocations.

“Beyond developmental testing, the drill was posed as showing ‘overwhelming’ ‘counteraction’ of its strategic forces” to South Korea-U.S. drills and consultations, Ms. Town noted, referring to the language used in the North Korean official press accounts.

Pyongyang has been criticising what it called "military threats" from the United States and its allies, saying it would demonstrate "more offensive and overwhelming counteraction capabilities" in response.

Initial reports of the removal—which happened on the orders of the Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.—cited worries that Chinese President Xi Jinping might react with some escalatory counteraction.