North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday rejected reconciliation or reunification with South Korea, viewing it as a mistake, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA said.
“I think it’s a mistake we shouldn’t make. People who call us our worst enemy see us as someone with whom we must seek reconciliation and unification,” the government official noted at the year-end plenary meeting of the Workers’ Central Committee. Party of North Korea.
Also according to KNCA It was decided that Pyongyang would launch three new spy satellites in 2024 to strengthen its military capabilities.
“The mission to launch three additional reconnaissance satellites in 2024 has been declared,” KCNA said.
After two consecutive failures in May and June last year, North Korea successfully launched its first military observation satellite into orbit in November.
Pyongyang claimed to have provided images of key military sites in the United States of America (US) and South Korea, but did not make them public.
At the beginning of the party meeting The North Korean leader had previously called for the country’s “acceleration of war preparations”, including its nuclear weapons programin light of the ‘confrontational maneuvers’ of the US and its allies.
North Korea has been prevented from conducting tests on ballistic technology by successive United Nations (UN) resolutions.
South Korean intelligence services believe that the North Korean government has received decisive technological assistance from Russia, a country Kim Jong-un visited in September. On that occasion, the leader of North Korea met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
During the meeting of the Central Committee of the North Korean Workers’ Party Kim Jong Un said the Korean Peninsula is in the grip of “an ongoing and uncontrollable crisis situation.”which was the fault of the US and South Korea.
The ruler therefore ordered a reorganization of the governments managing relations with the South, to “fundamentally change the direction.”
In 2018, the two Koreas began a process of rapprochement, marked by three meetings between Kim Jong Un and then South Korean President Moon Jae-in, which was quashed.
Source: DN
