Leader Kim Jong-un has called for amending Pyongyang’s constitution to classify South Korea as the “No. 1 hostile country”
North Korea has followed through on leader Kim Jong-un’s conclusion that peaceful reunification with Seoul is impossible, scrapping the government agencies that were involved in such efforts and preparing to constitutionally brand South Korea as Pyongyang’s archenemy.
Speaking to North Korea’s parliament on Monday, Kim called for changing South Korea’s constitutional status to the “No. 1 hostile country.” The parliament immediately agreed to scrap the agencies involved in promoting reunification with the South and inter-Korean tourism, Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.
Kim reiterated his conclusion that reunification of the two Koreas is no longer possible, citing claims that Seoul seeks to force the collapse of Pyongyang to gobble up North Korea. His comments followed a statement in late December that Pyongyang’s approach to reunification based on “one state with two systems” was diametrically opposed to Seoul’s goal of “unification by absorption.”
The North Korean leader has claimed that the US is seeking a military confrontation on the peninsula and has essentially turned South Korea into a military base and “colonial subordinate state.” He warned on Monday that military conflict may be inevitable.
“We don’t want war, but we have no intention of avoiding it,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying. “We will never unilaterally unleash a war if the enemies do not provoke us,” he added, warning that the “enemies should never misjudge this as our weakness.”
The US and South Korea have ramped up joint military exercises in the past year, while North Korea has carried out a series of missile tests. Pyongyang reportedly tested a solid-fuel ballistic missile armed with a hypersonic warhead on Sunday. The South Korean Defense Ministry condemned the launch and vowed an “overwhelming response” if Pyongyang commits a “direct provocation.”
(Non-archived link: https://www.rt.com/news/590709-north-korea-abolishes-reunification-agencies/ )
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
wombat is this u?
Maybe there is a reference I’m missing here, but I would love to poop cubes.
West knows that as China and Russian ramp up trade with NK, NK will advance rapidly. China is already starting to outpace the USs military. Russia has shown they are capable of way more than what the west thought. If NK advances past what SK is able to respond to then that’s another foothold gone. I fully believe the US will try to start shit before 2025 when it’s projected they US military will never catch up to Chinas production. They are trying to lock down all their control points for when they kick things off. It’s why they are pushing so hard for Isn’treal to finish the genocide. That also don’t want to be the ones to start the war. They want to be the bully that pushes and pushes until someone finally pushes back and then scream and cry about it as the cry for war.
The US has made itself a great candidate for becoming a vassal state, since there is very little material wealth generated domestically. Imagine if/when American businesses in China/Russia (I can’t imagine there are any in NK right?) are nationalized. Especially if China stops exporting to the US. That would devastate the American economy, shortages of everything everywhere, and no productive capacity or expertise to fix it.
Capitalism is abandoning the empire.
The reason why USA, and other Western European diaspora had advanced economically in the Cold War, was because they depend on the enslavement, unethical human experimentations for human health research, and property thief in fake schools that imprisons Indigenous children since 1850s to 1998 although the fake school genocide might still continue unofficially. The fake school holocaust by the British diaspora is what inspired the Nazi Holocaust and they continue the imprisonment of Indigenous people in concentration camps in dangerous barren wasteland and the chemical attacks against the Indigenous people until they surrender their properties, their inheritance, and the reparation for the fake school holocaust that many Indigenous parents were tricked into funding.
The centuries of fake school free riding had made Western European diaspora into parasites that free ride on the people of color to sustain their wasteful consumption, so the Western European diaspora are now trying to enslave or cheat on the immigrant of color and abandon the European diaspora in rural communities.
the end of the empire nears
I’m honestly surprised they’ve only just come to the conclusion that the South Korean govt will never, let alone be allowed by the US, to agree to a peaceful unification in any other form than that of East Germany.
To be honest slamming the door on SK with all the sanctions on their country and the material suffering risk would have been irresponsible. I think this is mainly in response to not just the decades of failed peace processes and the recent provocations but also the new global economic reality that with Russia now isolated from the west and in their corner and China as well, shutting that door doesn’t mean the same potential death sentence it might have meant in say 2004 or 2014.
Second Korean War?
You mean that time the USA told Japan to not vacate the peninsula until the USA military arrived, took over the imperial colony of Japan on the peninsula, created an artificial border in the middle of a sovereign nation, and then used a crossing of that fake border to justify bombing nearly every single structure in the North until the military had to acknowledge there were no more targets left to hit, so instead they amped up their napalm campaign and Koreans needed to live in caves to survive while the USA occupation of South Korea was a racial and sexual domination playground until eventually they found enough compradors in South Korea to build a government with an air of legitimacy to provide cover for essentially turning the entire Southern portion of the peninsula into a USA military base and industrial base? That Korean War? The one that killed millions of civilians?
I know this is lemmygrad, but seeing people stan for North Korea never stops being wild.
Have you ever researched the DPRK independently? Do you have anything positive you can say about them?
Have you ever researched the DPRK independently?
What would “independent research” of the DPRK be exactly?
Stop uncritically listening to media beholdent to political and economic forces who are doing everything in their power to destroy it and open history books, and by history books I don’t mean popular books you buy at your local thrift store I mean academic history books that has been peer reviewed, have a bibliography and are published by an editor specialised in academic wrighting.
If you’d stop uncriticaly throwing every “this country is litteraly 1984, everyone know it” onthology you know of and try to ask for reading recomendations we’ll gladly give you some.
Here is one to start: Patriots, traitors and empires
Hitler, is that you?
Funny how your response to claims of a war perpetuated by the US that took the life of millions is to call us “stans” and point that we are the ones with the wild takes uh.
Either engage in good faith and at least try to understand what is being talked about or get your liberal lemm.ee ass out of here.
Technically the first never ended. Korean War 1.5 maybe?
i mean, when even south koreans hate their own country, is not the big deal when the north just puts himself in the line for “people who hate ROK”
This happens when the other half of your country is an occupied militant puppet of USA