Seoul, South Korea CNN — North Korea will no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with South Korea, Kim Jong Un has declared, as his nation vowed to put three new military spy satellites into orbit in 2024.
Kim said inter-Korean relations had become “a relationship between two hostile countries and two belligerents at war,” the state-run news agency KCNA reported.
“It’s time for us to acknowledge the reality and clarify our relationship with the South,” Kim said, adding that if Washington and Seoul were to attempt a military confrontation with Pyongyang, its “nuclear war deterrent will not hesitate to take serious action.”
“I believe that it is a mistake that we must no longer make to deal with the people who declare us as ‘the main enemy’ and seek only opportunities for ‘[our] regime collapse’ and ‘unification by absorption’ by collaborating for reconciliation and unification,” Kim added.
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“It’s time for us to acknowledge the reality and clarify our relationship with the South,” Kim said, adding that if Washington and Seoul were to attempt a military confrontation with Pyongyang, its “nuclear war deterrent will not hesitate to take serious action.”
Relations have ebbed and flowed over the decades but tensions have remained particularly high in more recent years after Kim Jong Un ramped up the country’s nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions.
Last week, KCNA reported that Kim had instructed the country’s army, munitions industry, nuclear weapons and civil defense sectors to accelerate war preparations in response to “confrontation moves” by the US.
Pyongyang was keener to further relations instead with current allies like “China and Russia, and a selected network of countries around the world which will continue to enable its proliferation and financial outreach,” she added.
Ja Ian Chong, an associate professor of political science and nonresident scholar at Carnegie China, said Kim’s speech “reflects the reality that unification is not a short or even medium-term possibility (for the Koreas).”
“The North Korean threat is motivating greater trilateral cooperation among the US, Japan, and South Korea, including real-time sharing of missile tracking data.
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Unfortunately not too surprising, anyone with eyes in the situation could have told you this was the case. Could even be said Neither country wants Reconciliation.
The Kims wants to maintain their feudal kingdom and South Korea doesn’t want to pay to bring millions of North Koreans forward into the modern day. I think it was Escape From Camp 14 or the Aquariums of Pyongyang where the defector author couldn’t belive the average south response to the north was pretending the country didn’t exist.
Hope they won’t do anything funny. They probably had a big boost from russian trade, and there’s a trend of new conflicts opening up everywhere lately.
Those conflicts opening up recently are also encouraged by Russia as a strategy to destabilize, distract, and reroute resources away from Ukraine as well as reinforce their other motives
I’d not give them that much credit. But many individual fuckheads, including their partners, saw this and thought their own ambitions can fly under the radar or be a new norm. Many hostile actors want to do their stuff without any attention
I said encouraged and yea they encourage likely even financially, those people
Why would Best Korea, the socialist paradise resisting US imperialism, even want to unify with those southern US-puppeted dogs? Critical support for Comrade Kim’s Divine Monarchy! /s
I am genuinely curious if kim et al. actually believes this “norh korea is the main enemy of south korea and the world” or is it just propaganda and they are aware that the world doesn’t give a rat’s ass about north korea, as long as they leave us alone.
I’m pretty sure Kim knows at least. He grew up in Switzerland after all and speaks Korean with a Swiss accent, according to some sources
speaks Korean with a Swiss accent, according to some sources
Are there not any videos of him speaking that a typical Korean could confirm or deny that claim?
Yeah, that’s why I added “according to some sources”, I can’t speak Korean, so I can’t verify it
His statements are so unrealistic that I always think this is just an excuse to buff his military against someone else, he’s officially good friends with, but doesn’t trust and fears invasion.
