A photo published by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on December 31, 2023, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending, the previous day, a general meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party. For five days in Pyongyang. (Exclusive use within South Korea. Partial or total distribution prohibited)
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Yonhap) — North Korea expressed its hostility toward South Korea more forcefully during a key meeting at the end of the year, and tried to use it as an excuse to bolster its military capabilities and intensify internal solidarity, it was reported Tuesday. By the South Korean Ministry of Unification.
North Korea's State Affairs Committee Chairman Kim Jong Un identified Relations between the two Koreas Like relationships “Between two countries hostile to each other” He promised to “overwhelmingly” deter US-led confrontational actions by concluding the five-day general meeting of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party on Saturday last week.
Kim also ordered a “major event to suppress the entire territory” of South Korea, mobilizing all material means and nuclear force, and said he would no longer consider the South a peer for reconciliation and unity.
In its assessment of the results of the party meeting, the South Korean ministry said that Pyongyang appeared to have shown “tension” in pursuit of its political goals for 2024, highlighting tensions with Seoul and Washington, in order to further raise North Korea's loyalty. population of the system.
A ministry official, who requested anonymity, told reporters that Pyongyang, using a stronger term than the one used in 2022, emphasized its hostility to the South, in an attempt to strengthen its military capabilities and deepen internal solidarity.
At a year-end party meeting in 2022, Kim described South Korea as an “undoubted enemy” and called for an “accelerated” increase in the country's nuclear arsenal.
At the 2023 meeting, North Korea said it intends to launch other missiles Three military spy satellitesAnd strengthen its nuclear arsenal and produce unmanned combat equipment, such as attack drones, in 2024.
South Korea's spy agency recently reported that Pyongyang is expected to carry out provocative actions as early as this year, before the contract is scheduled to take place. Parliamentary elections in Aprilin South Korea, and the November presidential elections in the United States.
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