Kim Yo Jong slams U.S. President Biden for warning of ‘end of regime’
Posted Date – 08:20 AM, Sun – 4/30/23
Kim Yo Jong slams U.S. President Biden for warning of ‘end of regime’
Seoul: The powerful sister of the North Korean leader has said North Korea will flex its military might in a more provocative way in response to a new U.S.-South Korea deal to bolster nuclear deterrence in response to North Korea’s nuclear threat, which she insists shows they are “Extreme” hostility towards North Korea Pyongyang. Kim also delivered a personal insult to U.S. President Joe Biden, who said after a summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday that any North Korean nuclear attack on the U.S. or its allies would “lead to the end of any regime.” such an action.
The meeting between Biden and Yoon in Washington comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula, with North Korean weapons displays and joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises picking up pace in a tit-for-tat cycle. In comments published by state media, Kim Yo-jeong said the U.S.-South Korea deal reflected the allies’ “willingness to act in the most hostile and aggressive manner” against North Korea and would put regional peace and security into “more serious danger.” Kim, one of her brother’s top foreign policy officials, said the summit further strengthened North Korea’s belief in increasing its nuclear weapons capabilities.
It is especially important for North Korea to perfect its “secondary mission of nuclear war deterrence,” she said, an apparent reference to the country’s escalating nuclear doctrine that calls for preemptive nuclear strikes under a wide range of possible scenarios. believes its leadership is under threat. She slammed Biden for his outspoken warnings that North Korea’s nuclear aggression would lead to the downfall of its regime, calling him senile and “overly miscalculated and irresponsibly brave.”
However, she said North Korea would not simply dismiss his words as “absurd remarks from an elderly man like him”. “When we consider that this term is used personally by our most hostile adversary, the President of the United States, it is a threatening statement, and he should be prepared for a storm of excess,” she said. “The more the enemy insists on nuclear war Exercise, the more nuclear assets are deployed around the Korean peninsula, the stronger we will be in exercising our right to self-defense, which is directly proportional to it.”
North Korea has long described regular U.S. military exercises with South Korea as invasion exercises, even as allies describe them as defensive exercises.
Many experts say Kim Jong Un is likely to use his opponents’ military drills as an excuse to advance his weapons program and cement his domestic leadership amid economic hardship. Faced with the growing North Korean threat, Yoon has been seeking stronger assurances from the United States that it would quickly and decisively use nuclear weapons if South Korea were to come under a nuclear attack from North Korea.
His administration has also been expanding military training with the United States, which included last month the allies’ largest on-the-ground exercise in years, as well as separate exercises involving U.S. carrier strike groups and advanced warplanes, including the nuclear-capable B-52 bomber and F-35 fighter jet. Kim Yo Jong did not specify what North Korea planned to do in response to the outcome of the U.S.-South Korea summit. Her brother said this month that the country had built its first military spy satellite and would launch it on an unspecified date, in what would almost certainly be seen by its rivals as a prohibited test of long-range missile technology.
