North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un Orders More Nuclear Weapons
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ordered a rapid accumulation of nuclear weapons on Monday, ostensibly because recent joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea were an “obvious expression of their desire to provoke war”.
Kim did her Remarks while participant The launch of the new destroyer of 5,000 tonnes Choe Hyon In the western port city of North Korea, Nampo. The North Korean state media claim that the destroyer will be able to transport nuclear missiles when he became operational in 2026.
THE Choe Hyon is the second destroyer of his class. The first, Kang Kon, featured in a sloppy Launching ceremony in May which caused serious damage below the ship. The destroyer would have been repaired and relaunched in June.
Kim raged that the impact of launch, which he personally witnessed, was a “serious accident and a criminal act caused by absolute negligence, irresponsibility and non -scientific empiricism”.
According to the dictator, the Kang Kon The disaster “brought the dignity and self -respect of our state to a collapse”. A more fluid launch ceremony for its sister ship, the Choe Hyon, was supposed to be a step towards the restoration of the pride of the North Korean army.
Kim said that a third destroyer was currently under construction at the shipyard in Nampo. It has boasted that when the three ships are operational, the North Korean navy “will become a reliable force carrying out a part in the composition of the nuclear forces of the State and the field of nuclear use in the near future”.
“The safety environment around the RPDC becomes more serious day by day and the dominant situation requires us to make a radical and rapid change in existing theory and practice and the rapid expansion of nucleation,” he said. The RPDC is the favorite name of the North Korean regime, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Kim renounced the Pacific reunification ostentatious last year, rewriting its national constitution to mark Seoul as a “permanent enemy” and demolition A monument to Pyongyang which expressed the hope of bringing the Korean peninsula together.
The US-South-Korean military exercise which supposed to be necessary for Pyongyang to move the production of nuclear weapons was the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) event. 2025 marks the 25th performance of the exercise, which is traditionally held about three months after a comparable exercise in the spring.
North Korea still criticizes the UFS in hyperbolic terms, denouncing it as a provocative test for an invasion. This year, the new Liberal President of South Korea, Lee Jae-Myung, organized part of the UFS late until September so that it seems less threatening.
Lee said on Friday that he hoped to demonstrate that his administration had “no intention to engage in hostile acts” and “would respect the North Korean regime”, unlike his predecessor, with a bellicist conservative, Yoon Suk-Yeol.
For her problems, Lee could see Kim Rave that the UFS is a greater threat than ever because she now understands “nuclear elements”. No part of the exercise includes simulated nuclear weapons and, in fact, this year’s exercise does not simulate the answers to a North Korean nuclear attack, but that made little difference for the North Korean dictator.
“Whatever the quantity of Seoul and Washington underline the defensive nature of the exercises, Pyongyang chooses to interpret all the allied, large or small exercises, as linked to nuclear. said Korea Juongang Daily (KJD) Tuesday.
The main Hong Min researcher of Korea Institute for National Unification noted that for all his nuclear shooting rhetoric, Kim’s response to the past exercises of the UFS was more substantial.
“By opting for an inspection on the field rather than a launch of missiles, Kim signals a discreet response – but by presenting naval nuclear capacities, he always sends a warning to Seoul and Washington,” said Hong.
The South Korean government has rejected Kim’s belligerent rhetoric as a “repetitive response” has trotted for each joint exercise between South Korea and the United States. Lee’s government has repeated its assurances that the exercises “are not intended to attack the North or to intensify tensions on the Korean peninsula”.
Experts believe that North Korea probably has around 50 nuclear warheads in its arsenal, with enough nuclear materials enriched to build up to 40 others, if Kim is seriously for the production of weapons.
South Korean President Lee is program Going to Washington on August 25 for a bilateral summit with President Donald Trump. Defense cooperation is the first element of the agenda of their meeting. President Trump and his advisers said they could ask South Korea to support the financial burden of his defense more and could reduce the presence of American troops in South Korea.
