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.”
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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
That just shows you the lack of imagination. If you were the DPRK and really wanted to punish someone, you’d send them to work 70-hour weeks in the South, with a week off every year to try to have a baby. Absolutely no idea what the difference is supposed to be between a DPRK labor camp and an ordinary job in SK.
The bisexual erasure continues despite progress. When will the oppressed masses be liberated? 😔
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