Seoul:
North Korean chief Kim Jong Un has accused the USA of ramping up pressure and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has by no means confronted such dangers of nuclear warfare as now, state media KCNA stated on Friday.
In a speech at a army exhibition on Thursday in Pyongyang, Kim stated his earlier expertise of negotiations with Washington solely highlighted its “aggressive and hostile” coverage in opposition to Pyongyang, KCNA stated.
“By no means earlier than have the combatants on the Korean peninsula confronted such a harmful and acute confrontation that it might escalate into essentially the most damaging thermonuclear warfare,” Kim stated, based on KCNA.
“We’ve got already gone so far as we will on negotiating with the USA, however what we grew to become sure of from the end result shouldn’t be 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 US 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 realize any concrete end result as a consequence of variations between US 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 international locations “would’ve had a nuclear warfare with tens of millions 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 stated.
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 army 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 army to enhance capabilities for combating a warfare, blaming the USA and its allies for stoking pressure to “the worst part in historical past” and calling the Korean peninsula “the world’s greatest hotspot.”
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