Global Courant 2023-04-29 15:21:37
North Korea’s powerful sister says her country will make more provocative displays of military might in response to a new agreement between the US and South Korea to step up nuclear deterrence to counter the north’s nuclear threat to go. Pyongyang.
Kim Yo Jong also drew personal insults to President Joe Biden, who declared on Wednesday after a summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol that any North Korean nuclear strike against the US or its allies would “lead to the end of any regime then”. action.
Biden’s meeting with Yoon in Washington came amid heightened tensions in the Korean peninsula as the pace of both the North Korean arms demonstrations and the combined US-South Korean military exercises is on a tit-for-tat cycle increased.
Since the start of 2022, North Korea has tested about 100 missiles, including multiple demonstrations of intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to reach the U.S. mainland and a slew of short-range launches in the North, described as simulated nuclear strikes against South Korea .
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is widely expected to raise the bar in the coming weeks or months as he continues to accelerate a campaign aimed at strengthening the North’s status as a nuclear power and ultimately negotiating US economic and security concessions from a position of strength.
At their summit, Biden and Yoon announced new nuclear deterrence efforts, calling for periodic docking of U.S. nuclear-armed submarines in South Korea for the first time in decades and strengthening training between the two countries. They also committed to plans for bilateral presidential consultations in the event of a North Korean nuclear attack, the establishment of a nuclear consultation group, and enhanced information sharing on nuclear and strategic weapons operations plans.
Commenting on state media, Kim Yo Jong said the US-South Korea deal reflects the Allies’ “most hostile and aggressive will of action” against the North and will put regional peace and security in “more serious jeopardy.” .
Kim, one of her brother’s top foreign policy officials, said the summit further strengthened the North’s belief in increasing its nuclear weapons capabilities. She said it would be especially important for the North to perfect its “second mission of nuclear war deterrence”, in a clear reference to the country’s escalating nuclear doctrine calling for preemptive nuclear strikes in a wide range of scenarios in which it could perceive its risks. leadership as threatened.
She lashed out at Biden for his blunt warning that North Korean nuclear aggression would result in the end of his regime, calling him senile and “too miscalculated and irresponsibly brave.” She said, however, that the North would not simply dismiss his words as a “nonsensical comment from the person in his endowment.”
“Considering that this phrase was used personally by the president of the US, our most hostile opponent, it is threatening rhetoric for which he should be prepared for far too great an afterstorm,” she said.
“The more determined the enemies are to organize nuclear warfare exercises, and the more nuclear assets they deploy near the Korean Peninsula, the stronger the exercise of our right of self-defense will become in direct proportion to them.”
She called Yoon a “fool” for his efforts to bolster South Korea’s defenses in tandem with its alliance with the United States and bolster the South’s own conventional missile capabilities, saying he placed his absolute trust in the US , despite only getting “nominal” pledges. in return.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which handles inter-Korean affairs, described her remarks as “absurd” and insisted they reflect the North’s “nervousness and frustration” over Allied efforts to strengthen nuclear deterrence. convey.
