Leader Kim Jong-un has called for amending Pyongyang’s constitution to classify South Korea as the “No. 1 hostile country”
North Korea has followed through on leader Kim Jong-un’s conclusion that peaceful reunification with Seoul is impossible, scrapping the government agencies that were involved in such efforts and preparing to constitutionally brand South Korea as Pyongyang’s archenemy.
Speaking to North Korea’s parliament on Monday, Kim called for changing South Korea’s constitutional status to the “No. 1 hostile country.” The parliament immediately agreed to scrap the agencies involved in promoting reunification with the South and inter-Korean tourism, Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.
Kim reiterated his conclusion that reunification of the two Koreas is no longer possible, citing claims that Seoul seeks to force the collapse of Pyongyang to gobble up North Korea. His comments followed a statement in late December that Pyongyang’s approach to reunification based on “one state with two systems” was diametrically opposed to Seoul’s goal of “unification by absorption.”
The North Korean leader has claimed that the US is seeking a military confrontation on the peninsula and has essentially turned South Korea into a military base and “colonial subordinate state.” He warned on Monday that military conflict may be inevitable.
“We don’t want war, but we have no intention of avoiding it,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying. “We will never unilaterally unleash a war if the enemies do not provoke us,” he added, warning that the “enemies should never misjudge this as our weakness.”
The US and South Korea have ramped up joint military exercises in the past year, while North Korea has carried out a series of missile tests. Pyongyang reportedly tested a solid-fuel ballistic missile armed with a hypersonic warhead on Sunday. The South Korean Defense Ministry condemned the launch and vowed an “overwhelming response” if Pyongyang commits a “direct provocation.”
(Non-archived link: https://www.rt.com/news/590709-north-korea-abolishes-reunification-agencies/ )
Second Korean War?
You mean that time the USA told Japan to not vacate the peninsula until the USA military arrived, took over the imperial colony of Japan on the peninsula, created an artificial border in the middle of a sovereign nation, and then used a crossing of that fake border to justify bombing nearly every single structure in the North until the military had to acknowledge there were no more targets left to hit, so instead they amped up their napalm campaign and Koreans needed to live in caves to survive while the USA occupation of South Korea was a racial and sexual domination playground until eventually they found enough compradors in South Korea to build a government with an air of legitimacy to provide cover for essentially turning the entire Southern portion of the peninsula into a USA military base and industrial base? That Korean War? The one that killed millions of civilians?
I know this is lemmygrad, but seeing people stan for North Korea never stops being wild.
Do you have an actual argument to anything the above user said or are you just here to get mad that we’re defending countries you don’t like?
They are just here to
The return of the giant emojis. Hello fullscreenness my old friend.
It’s just a pic. Unfortunately we do not have the Fed poster emoji.
we do now
Given the lack of alt text, I don’t think that’s an emoji.
This is correct. It is a picture. Lemmygrad does not have this as an emoji.
It’s too personal to be used as an emoji as it clearly shows the face of one of our top posters. He doesn’t look like me but the photo was taken in my department and you can see me reflected in the monitor if you zoom in and say ‘computer, enhance’.
Have you ever researched the DPRK independently? Do you have anything positive you can say about them?
What would “independent research” of the DPRK be exactly?
Stop uncritically listening to media beholdent to political and economic forces who are doing everything in their power to destroy it and open history books, and by history books I don’t mean popular books you buy at your local thrift store I mean academic history books that has been peer reviewed, have a bibliography and are published by an editor specialised in academic wrighting.
If you’d stop uncriticaly throwing every “this country is litteraly 1984, everyone know it” onthology you know of and try to ask for reading recomendations we’ll gladly give you some.
Here is one to start: Patriots, traitors and empires
I’m curious if you have any good book recommendations that discuss misinformation on the North or something along those lines
I don’t unfortunately, but I’m sure someone on grad or hex has some, you should make a post.
Thanks for the book!
baseline minimum, how about not regurgitating state dept propaganda about a country from places that have committed genocide in that country?
the only thing americans know about korea is necromancy, push train, eat insect and rat, and LIE
Do they charge they phone and be bisexual to?
no, phone and be bisexual are both illegal. if they catch you they will put you and everyone you have ever looked at in labor camp for 10,000 years
Watch some videos of people visiting. You can literally travel there, and they have a semi-open border with China. Just gotta step out of your bubble.
I don’t exactly know what they mean either, but a good start is actually looking things up yourself and not relying on cultural osmosis. The second step is looking at sources and considering vested interests.
Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development
Hitler, is that you?
“My country’s media tells me they’re the bad guys, don’t you know they’re the bad guys?”
Like dude we committed a genocide there and leveled every building, they would be stupid not to focus on military deterrents after that.
Consider the way western media is covering the Yemeni resistance to the genocide in Gaza (a bunch of angry terrorist pirates who just hate boats!) and then compare that to all the absurd orientalist red scare nonsense we’ve heard about the DPRK. We’ve been marinating in that propaganda our whole lives, of course it’s going to feel weird for you to see people pushing back against it.
what did he say in that paragraph that was wrong? i am genuinely asking this in good faith.
Funny how your response to claims of a war perpetuated by the US that took the life of millions is to call us “stans” and point that we are the ones with the wild takes uh.
Either engage in good faith and at least try to understand what is being talked about or get your liberal lemm.ee ass out of here.
lol
oops, forgot to turn off my nonce radar
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Technically the first never ended. Korean War 1.5 maybe?
The US is still at war with the DPRK. We’ve been in an armistice, a stalemate, for 70 years.