(Adnkronos) – “We have already done everything in the negotiations with the United States and what has emerged for certain from the results” is “the unchanged, hostile policy towards North Korea.” Words of Kim Jong-un, who expressed himself in this way, as reported by the South Korean agency Yonhap, relaunching statements published by the official media of Pyongyang, less than two months before Donald Trump’s inauguration at the White House. The tycoon called Kim “Little Rocket Man” in 2017, a year spent mostly between exchanges of insults and threats of a nuclear war, only to give way the following year to a change of course, with the Singapore talks. But in 2019 the negotiations failed.
Kim, who now assures his full support for Russian President Vladimir Putin as he continues what the Kremlin launched a thousand days ago in Ukraine as a “special military operation”, accuses the United States of bringing military pressure and provocations to “extremes.” “In light of this reality,” North Korea – according to its leader – “realizes every day and every hour that achieving the most powerful military capabilities ever is the only way to maintain peace and ensure a solid guarantee of security and development.” Thus, he says, Pyongyang “will develop self-defense capabilities more aggressively and without limits to match the ever-evolving threats posed by enemy methods of warfare.”
The statements came yesterday during the opening ceremony in Pyongyang of the ‘National Defense Development-2024’ event, during which – according to official North Korean media – “strategic and tactical weapons” were also presented. According to a published photo, highlights the South Korean agency Yonhap, intercontinental and hypersonic ballistic missiles, as well as drones and multiple rocket launchers, were on display.
