Wednesday, January 10, 2024 – North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un has branded South Korea his country's 'principal enemy' and warned he would not hesitate to annihilate it.
The dictator was also quoted by state media saying he had
'no intention of avoiding war' with his country's historic enemy to the south.
The report follows recent live-fire exercises by Pyongyang's
military near the contested maritime border that prompted counter-drills and
evacuation orders for residents on two South Korean border islands.
'The historic time has come at last when we should define as
a state most hostile toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea the
entity called the Republic of Korea,' Kim was reported as saying by the
official Korean Central News Agency.
Kim, urging factory workers to modernise and 'produce more
weapons', said he had 'no intention of avoiding a war' and warned he would have
no hesitation in 'annihilating' South Korea, KCNA added.
This news comes after nearly 50 countries joined the United
States in condemning North Korea's alleged transfers of weapons to Vladimir
Putin's forces for use in Ukraine, which would violate rafts of United Nations
sanctions.
The White House last week said it has evidence that Russia
had fired at Ukraine additional ballistic missiles provided by North Korea.
It accused the North of sending both missiles and launchers
to Russia in what it called a 'significant and concerning escalation' of its
support for Putin's war effort.
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