North Korean leader, Kim Jong-unCalled for revision of Constitution to designate South Korea as “enemy country number one”This represents a new example of the profound strategic and diplomatic turn Pyongyang has opted for.
On the first day of the current session of the Supreme People’s Assembly (Parliament) on Monday, Kim gave a long speech in which he said Washington’s Seoul-backed policies were aimed at dooming his country. they do not allow any more room for maneuver than preparing for a combat conflictKCNA agency reported today.
In line with Kim’s public messages in recent weeks, the North Korean leader assured that there is no “reconciliation or reunification” with the South and that in case of war, this should also be clearly stated in the Magna Carta. “The question of the occupation, suppression and complete recovery of the Republic of Korea (the official name of the South) is being considered.” “Today the Supreme People’s Assembly Ends almost 80 years of North-South relations “Enact our new policy for the South,” the North Korean marshal shouted, signaling a fundamental shift in diplomatic matters that many analysts had warned about after the failure of the 2019 Hanoi nuclear disarmament summit or Pyongyang’s gradual rapprochement with Beijing and Moscow.
Kim also said: “Growing military agreement between Japan and Republic of Korea “seriously harms our national security” and called on all government institutions “at all levels” to “take comprehensive measures for the immediate transition to a war regime in emergency situations” and “make comprehensive material preparations for national resistance.”
The Leader pointed out that the Government will immediately implement the decision announced over the weekend. Dissolve all civil exchange organizations with the South Established over the last fifty years to achieve rapprochement between both neighbours, who are still technically at war since the conflict they faced (1950-53) only ended with a ceasefire. The following offer was added to the harsh language used by Kim: destroy symbols or statues advocating peaceful reunificationSomething that has not been seen so far during his tenure. In particular, he advocated the “physical cutting” of the tracks of the old Gyeongui Line railway line connecting both halves of the peninsula until they were left “at an irreparable level” or the demolition of a massive monument called the reunification arch. It is located at the gates of Pyongyang when you enter the city from the south.