Kim Yo-jong, who holds many senior positions in government and the ruling party, said the North had no intention of starting a second war in Korea, but would respond if provoked and leave the southern army in a state of “total disaster and disaster ”. . Her comments after South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook publicly discussed Seoul’s ability to “accurately and quickly hit any target in North Korea” with a range of weapons, as international concern grows over the recent resumption of fire tests. long-range from the north. In another statement to Souch on Sunday, he called him “a scum-like man.” Kim Yo-jong’s warning, though not uncommon in the lively use of language, indicates rising tensions on the peninsula after the North conducted its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in five years last month amid speculation that the regime would could be preparing to conduct a nuclear test later this month. In her second statement in a few days, Kim said Pyongyang was opposed to the war and did not consider South Korea as its main enemy. “In other words, it means that if the South Korean military does not take military action against our state, it will not be considered a target,” he said. “But if South Korea, for whatever reason – whether it has been blinded or not by wrong judgment – chooses such military action as the ‘pre-emptive strike’ advertised by (Suh Wook), the situation will change. “In that case, South Korea itself would be the target.” The South, he added, could have avoided that fate by abandoning its “imaginary daydream” of launching an attack on the North, a nuclear-armed state whose arsenal could include short-range nuclear weapons aimed at conventional South Korean forces and 28,500 US troops based in the country. North Korea has been trying to increase pressure on Seoul for weeks before South Korea’s new president, the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol, replaces the liberal Moon Jae-in, who has little to show for his efforts to reach out to Pyongyang. Moon met with Kim Jong Un three times in 2018 and pushed hard to host the North Korean leader’s first summit with Donald Trump in June of that year. A second Trump-Kim summit in 2019 failed due to disagreements over easing sanctions, and the Biden administration showed no interest in resuming denuclearization talks unless they resulted in the verifiable elimination of nuclear and nuclear weapons. Yoon, who will be sworn in on May 9, has pledged to strengthen the South’s defense against North Korean missile strikes, but has not ruled out a return to dialogue with Kim. Yoon’s foreign and security advisers are in the United States to discuss an early summit with Joe Biden amid concerns in Seoul that the US president is focusing exclusively on the war in Ukraine. Some analysts believe the North will continue to increase pressure on Washington in the coming months, possibly by testing missile flights over Japan or repeating nuclear tests. A major challenge may occur on April 15, or around April 110, the 110th anniversary of the birth of North Korean founder – and Kim Jong Un – grandfather Kim Il-sung.
