SEOUL -North Korean chief Kim Jong Un has accused the US of ramping up stress and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has by no means confronted such dangers of nuclear warfare as now, state media KCNA mentioned on Friday.
In a speech at a navy exhibition on Thursday in Pyongyang, Kim mentioned his earlier expertise of negotiations with Washington solely highlighted its “aggressive and hostile” coverage in opposition to Pyongyang, KCNA mentioned.
“By no means earlier than have the opponents on the Korean peninsula confronted such a harmful and acute confrontation that it may escalate into probably the most harmful thermonuclear warfare,” Kim mentioned, in line with KCNA.
“We now have already gone so far as we are able to on negotiating with the US, however what we turned sure of from the end result is just not the superpower’s willingness to coexist, however its thorough stance of energy and aggressive and hostile coverage towards us that may by no means change.”
Throughout U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s first time period, he and Kim held three unprecedented conferences in Singapore, Hanoi, and on the Korean border in 2018 and 2019.
However their diplomacy failed to attain any concrete consequence attributable to variations between U.S. requires North Korea to desert its nuclear weapons and Kim’s calls for for sanctions reduction.
Trump has lengthy touted his ties with Kim, saying final month that the 2 nations “would’ve had a nuclear warfare with thousands and thousands of individuals killed” however he stopped it due to their relationship.
North Korean state media has not but publicly talked about Trump’s reelection.
Kim, within the speech, known as for growing and upgrading weaponry into “ultra-modern ones” and vowed to proceed advancing defence capabilities to bolster the nation’s strategic place, KCNA mentioned.
The occasion, known as the Defence Growth Exhibition, featured strategic and tactical weapons.
Kim’s newest speech got here amid worldwide criticism over more and more deepening navy cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow, with North Korea having despatched greater than 10,000 troops to Russia to help its warfare in opposition to Ukraine.
Final week, Kim urged the nation’s navy to enhance capabilities for preventing a warfare, blaming the US and its allies for stoking stress to “the worst section in historical past” and calling the Korean peninsula “the world’s largest hotspot.”
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