Seoul, South Korea (AP) – The North Korean leader Kim Jong a Nuclear weapons program, State media reported on Sunday.
Kim has already made similar warnings, but his last statement again implies that the North Korean leader will probably not kiss The opening of President Donald Trump to meet him and relive diplomacy Anytime soon.
In a speech marking the founding 77th anniversary of the Korean People’s Army on Saturday, Kim said that the American-Japan-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Security Partnership established under an American plot to form a regional NATO type block invites imbalance Military in the Korean peninsula and “take up a serious challenge to the security environment of our state”, according to the official Korean central press agency.
“Referring to a series of new plans to quickly strengthen any deterrent, including nuclear forces, he once again clarified the unshakable policy of developing higher nuclear forces,” KCNA said.
In the midst of diplomacy in neutral with the United States and South Korea in recent years, Kim has concentrated on the widening and modernization of his arsenal of nuclear weapons. In response, the United States and South Korea have expanded their bilateral military exercises And trilateral involving Japan. North Korea has unleashed these exercises, calling them rehearsals to invade the country.
Since its inauguration of January 20, Trump said that he would tend Kim again while he was boasting of his summit in high issues with him during his first mandate.
During a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba Trump said on Friday that “we will have relations with North Korea, with Kim Jong one. I get along very well with him, as you know. I think I stopped the war.
During an interview with Fox News broadcast on January 23, Trump called Kim “an intelligent guy” and “not a religious fanatic”. When asked if he would contact Kim again, Trump replied: “I will do it, yes.”
Trump met Kim three times in 2018-2019 to discuss how to end the nuclear program in North Korea in what was the first summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea. High issues Diplomacy has finally collapsed Because Trump rejected Kim’s offer to dismantle his main nuclear complex, a partial step of denuclearization, in exchange for a large relief of sanctions.
North Korea has not directly responded to Trump’s recent opening, as it continues weapons testing activities and hostile rhetoric Against the United States, many experts say that Kim is now concerned about his dispatch troops in Russia To support its war efforts against Ukraine. They say that Kim would always plan to return to diplomacy with Trump if he determines that he would not manage to maintain the solid cooperation with Russia after the end of the war.
In his speech on Saturday, Kim reaffirmed that North Korea “will invariably support and encourage the cause of the Russian army and people to defend their sovereignty, their security and their territorial integrity”. Kim accused the United States of being behind “the war machine which arouses the tragic situation of Ukraine”.
In South Korea, some fear that Trump abandons the long -standing objective of the international community to achieve complete denuclearization of North Korea to produce a diplomatic achievement.
But a joint declaration published by Trump and Ishiba after their summit said that the two leaders had reaffirmed “their commitment to the complete denuclearization of the RPDC”, the acronym of the official name of North Korea, the People’s Democratic Republic from Korea. The press release indicates that the United States and Japan have also confirmed the importance of the trilateral partnership of Japan-US-Sud by responding to North Korea.
