2024-10-04 03:21:58
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un responded to warnings issued this week by the South’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, by threatening to destroy Seoul and the rest of the neighboring country and calling the president “a bit abnormal”. “.
Kim uttered the words during a visit to a special forces barracks on Tuesday and they were reported by state media on Thursday.
The North Korean leader told the troops about Yoon’s speech from the previous day, when the South had held large military parades to mark Armed Forces Day and the South Korean president had insisted that an attack by the North would mean “the end of the regime of Kim.
Kim “said this is a show that suggests this puppet Yoon is a bit abnormal, as he threatened a military response right under the nose of a country that possesses nuclear weapons,” KCNA reports.
The Northern Marshal assured that his country “has irreversibly secured its absolute power as a nuclear power, as well as the system and mechanisms for using it” and that it will use “without hesitation all the offensive resources it possesses, including nuclear weapons ” in case of threat.
He also warned that “if this situation occurred, the existence of Seoul and the Republic of Korea (the South’s official name) would be impossible.”.
Kim’s words come just three days before North Korea is due to convene a session of the Supreme People’s Assembly (Parliament) in which it is expected to amend the Constitution to redefine territorial limits, withdraw allusions to peaceful reunification or declare the South ” enemy number one”, as the North Korean leader himself asked at the beginning of the year.
Several experts believe that these changes, especially those relating to territorial limits, could lead to dangerous clashes in sensitive areas, such as the so-called Northern Limit Line (NLL), the disputed maritime border between the two countries in the Yellow Sea.
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