OUR North Korea sharply criticized today the agreement concluded South Korea And USA to strengthen it nuclear containment, with the powerful sister of the leader of the country Kim Chen InKim Yo Jung to stress that this could bring “an even greater danger.”

During South Korean President Yoon Seok-gil’s visit to the US, Washington and Seoul on Wednesday warned North Korea against any nuclear attack, saying it would lead to a response that would see the “end” of the regime. .

Deal ‘threatens peace and security’

The deal “will only contribute to a further threat to peace and security in Northeast Asia and around the world,” making it an action “that is in no way welcome,” Kim Yo-young said, according to the official North Korean news agency KCNA.

North Korea is convinced it needs to “finish” its own nuclear deterrence program, he continued.

“The more the enemy insists on establishing high schools for the use of nuclear weapons, the more they develop nuclear weapons near the Korean Peninsula, the more the exercise of our right to self-defense will increase,” he warned by analogy.

Mr. Yun and his US counterpart Joe Biden on Wednesday adopted the “Washington Declaration,” which strengthens bilateral defense cooperation, including in the area of ​​nuclear weapons.

Among the measures identified under the agreement is the visit of a US nuclear submarine to South Korea for the first time in four decades.

North Korea has defied international sanctions for years and continues to develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons. He no longer shows the slightest desire to abandon his arsenal, which he sees as a guarantee against any attempts at regime change.

Pyongyang has conducted a record number of missile tests this year, including the launch of its first solid-propellant ballistic missile, a key technological breakthrough for Kim Jong-un’s armed forces. Last year, North Korea called its status as a nuclear power “irreversible,” ruling out any talks to denuclearize it.

In response, Washington and Seoul stepped up defense cooperation and organized large-scale joint military exercises.

Attack on Biden

The US president’s statements about North Korea are “ridiculous,” especially because he makes them “advanced” person, says Kim Young.

President Biden, 80, is “not in a position to take on such a responsibility,” he added, calling him “an old man with no future.” It will be “too much for him to even complete his remaining two years in office,” continued Kim Jong-un’s sister, who also deeply offended South Korea’s Yoon Suk-gil, that “idiot.”

North Korean officials have a habit of insulting foreign leaders. In 2017, amid increasingly strident exchanges of threats between the two, Kim Jong-un called then-U.S. President Donald Trump a “hawk.”

South Korea’s Unification Ministry condemned Kim Yo-jong’s remarks as “rude” and reflecting Pyongyang’s “nervousness and desperation” over the “dramatic strengthening of the nuclear deterrence alliance” between Seoul and Washington. The insults show, he added, the “low level” of North Korea’s leadership.

Chong Sung-chan of the Sejong Institute’s Center for North Korean Studies believes tensions on the Korean Peninsula will continue to “escalate” to “a level similar to that of 2017.”

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}