The “Rocket Man” is stubborn again …
After repeatedly firing test rockets in recent weeks, the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is now blaming the United States and South Korea for the destabilization of the peninsula. And again claims that weapon development is a matter of self-defense, given the hostile policies of the United States and the military build-up in South Korea.
South Korea’s “unrestrained and dangerous” efforts to strengthen the military “destroy the military equilibrium on the Korean peninsula and increase military instability and danger,” he said at a speech at a defense development trade fair on November 12, 2005, according to a report by state news agency KCNA Tuesday.
He proudly posed in front of a number of weapons, including North Korea’s largest ICBM, a Hwasong-16 ballistic ICBM, as photos in the party newspaper Rodong Sinmun showed.
North Korea, meanwhile, is also pushing ahead with its missile program and, according to observers, has begun expanding a nuclear reactor for the production of nuclear missiles. North and South Korea are in an arms race in which both sides are increasingly testing advanced short-range ballistic missiles and other weapons.
The United States has stated that it is ready to enter into diplomatic talks with North Korea at any time. However, the government in Pyongyang is opposed as long as the US continues to take measures such as sanctions and military activities in South Korea.
The United States’ assertions that it has no hostility towards North Korea are difficult to believe given its continued “misjudgments and activities,” Kim said without elaborating.
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