SEOUL, March 24 — North Korea will never change its status as a nuclear-armed state, its leader Kim Jong Un said, state media reported today. The declaration—delivered...
The declaration—delivered yesterday—follows Kim Jong Un 's reappointment a day earlier as head of the authoritarian nation’s highest policymaking body, the State Affairs Commission .and enjoy FREE RM10 & when you sign up using code VERSAMM10 with min.
cash of RM100 today! T&Cs apply.SEOUL, March 24 — North Korea will never change its status as a nuclear-armed state, its leader Kim Jong Un said, state media reported today. The declaration—delivered yesterday—follows Kim’s reappointment a day earlier as head of the authoritarian nation’s highest policymaking body, the State Affairs Commission. “We will continue to firmly consolidate our status as a nuclear-armed state as an irreversible course, while aggressively stepping up our struggle against hostile forces,” he said in a policy speech at the rubber-stamp legislature in Pyongyang. In a lengthy policy address reported by the official Korean Central News Agency, the third-generation leader addressed a wide range of issues, from nuclear weapons and defence policy to economic goals and relations with South Korea. “We will, in line with the mission entrusted by the Constitution of the Republic...., further expand and advance our self-defensive nuclear deterrent,” he said, referring to nuclear weapons. Pursuing an expansion of nuclear weapons to consolidate its status as a nuclear-armed state has been “entirely justified”, he added. The isolated country will ensure “precise readiness” of its nuclear forces, he said, to fend off “strategic threats”.“We will designate South Korea as the most hostile state and deal with it by thoroughly rejecting and disregarding it,” Kim said. Pyongyang will “make it pay mercilessly—without the slightest consideration or hesitation—for any act that infringes upon our Republic,” he added. Kim’s remarks targeting Seoul come despite repeated overtures by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, a dovish leader who took office in June, for dialogue without preconditions. Pyongyang has ignored these gestures.Kim is the third-generation ruler of the state founded by his grandfather Kim Il Sung in 1948, and has ruled the country since his father’s death in 2011. The North’s legislature re-elected Kim as president of state affairs, KCNA reported earlier, without saying whether the decision was unanimous or whether there was any dissent. Critics argue that elections in North Korea are pre-determined and designed to give the leadership a veneer of democratic legitimacy.Over the next five-year plan period, the isolated country “must significantly strengthen the development foundations of the overall industrial sector”, he said, in order to “raise industrial production by about 1.5 times”.“Over the past five years, we have renovated key machine factories... while overcoming various difficulties and deviations”, he noted. Such feats “shattered... false claims of hostile forces that there can be no prosperity without nuclear abandonment”, he said. — AFP
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