“We managed to become a great nuclear power capable of defending the independence and national dignity of our homeland by mighty nuclear and hydrogen strikes”, Kim Jong-un was quoted as saying by the North Korean central news agency.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in an annual New Year’s speech Friday that he was ready for war if provoked by “invasive” outsiders, but stayed away from past threats centering on the country’s nuclear weapons and long-range missile ambitions.
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Analysts in Seoul say strained ties between the rival Koreas could continue following the death.
However, the South Korean intelligence community and experts dismissed the claims, saying North Korea is unlikely to have enough scientific know-how to design an H-bomb.
Parsing natural deaths from a forced demise amongst the senior leadership of North Korea is always hard, particularly nowadays given Kim Jong-un’s extensive purging.
Kim had long been the North’s point man on cross-border affairs, and his death was seen as a further setback to efforts to improve the always volatile relations between Seoul and Pyongyang.
Kim Yang Gon had been in charge of inter-Korean affairs since 2007.
North Koreans, however, have little choice but to praise and follow their dictator leader.
Top official Choe Ryong Hae, who had been absent from state media since late October and was rumored to have been in internal exile, was listed as a member of the funeral committee.
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Cooperation with Seoul could also provide a vital economic boost to North Korea, which is forced to operate under sanctions – including restrictions imposed specifically by the South. The two figures’ inclusion on the list appears to have been motivated by the political need to fill the unexpected vacancy caused by Kim Yang-gon’s death. Pyongyang subsequently declared that “prospects of North-South relations became even bleaker”. Kim Yang-gon was born in 1942 in Anju, South Pyongan Province. Since 2007, he had been serving as the director of the United Front Department. Andrei Lankov explained that it is unlikely that so many car-related deaths could be occurring as genuine “accidents” in North Korea, a country of few cars and tight security for officials. Kim’s predecessor died in a suspicious traffic accident in 2003.
