North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says he is ready to go to war if provoked by foreign nations.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to work to improve relations between his country and neighboring South Korea.
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The KCNA dispatch described him as the leader’s “closest comrade-in-arms and steadfast revolutionary comrade” who had made “dedicated” efforts to push for unification with South Korea.
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“The year 2015 was a year of very big struggle recorded with significant events and eye-opening successes and a year of victory and glory that strikingly demonstrated the dignity and might of socialist Korea”, Kim said in the 30-minute televised speech. But, North Korea has repeatedly demonstrated it rejects implementing the political and economic reforms necessary to justify a principled South Korean engagement strategy.
“If aggressors and provocateurs touch us even slightly, we will not hesitate to respond with a merciless sacred war for justice and national reunification”, he said.
“We must create a turnaround in economic development”, he added.
Kim further said he sought to improve the living standards of North Korean citizens. Jang Song Thaek was considered to be the second-highest official in North Korea, before he was accused of attempting to overthrow his nephew.
Director of North Korea’s United Front Department Kim Yang-gon (right) shakes hands with Hong Yong-pyo, South Korea’s Minister of Unification, during high-level talks in Panmunjeom, in a photo dating from August 25.
North and South Korea are separated by the most heavily armed border in the world, and both have threatened each other with war in the past.
North Korean spy chief Kim Yang Gon gets in a vehicle upon his arrival at the transit office near the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul, in this file picture taken November 29, 2007.
The speech is Kim’s fourth since becoming leader in 2011 when his father, Kim Jong Il, died.
North Korea watchers are now closely watching a ruling party congress due in May, the first since 1980, for further indications about the policy course of Mr. Kim.
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“I worry that we can not avoid long suspension of a dialogue between South and North Korea” following Kim’s death, said Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea.
