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Seoul functions as US 'colonial stooge', no partnership possible: Kim

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 31 Dec 2023 18:33
3 Min Read

The DPRK leader says that reality urgently requires a new approach on South Korea relations as the latter has become completely "tainted by Yankee culture."

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  • Seoul functions as US 'colonial stooge', no partnership possible: Kim
    DPRK leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a plenary meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea at the party headquarters in Pyongyang, DPRK on Tuesday, December 27, 2022 (AP)

DPRK leader Kim Jong Un acknowledged the impossibility of forging a partnership with South Korea and directed the reorganization of all work plans involving Seoul and relevant entities in light of the current circumstances.

Kim conveyed this message during the plenary session of the Korean Workers' Party Central Committee, which took place from December 26 to December 30.

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In his closing speech on "the orientation of struggle in 2024," he said that "The general conclusion drawn by our Party, looking back upon the longstanding north-south relations is that reunification can never be achieved with the ROK [South Korean] authorities that defined the 'unification by absorption' and 'unification under liberal democracy' as their state policy, which is in sharp contradiction with our line of national reunification based on one nation and one state with two systems... The reality urgently calls for us to adopt a new approach to north-south relations and the reunification policy."

Uncontrollable crisis

Kim expressed concern that actions taken by the United States and South Korea were driving the Korean peninsula into an "uncontrollable crisis" and criticized the US for introducing nuclear weapons to the region. He also noted the potential for a physical clash along the Military Demarcation Line due to the presence of large armed forces on both sides.

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Furthermore, he asserted that Seoul is entirely "tainted by Yankee culture" and currently functioned as a "colonial stooge" of the US. This, in his view, necessitated a reorganization of inter-Korean relations.

He emphasized the DPRK's army must continuously be prepared to take complete control of South Korea in the event of a nuclear war between the two nations, including constant readiness to employ nuclear weapons when needed.

In a previous statement made the week before, Kim had declared that Pyongyang would retaliate with a nuclear strike to any nuclear "provocations."

US provoking nuclear war

Earlier this month, a US nuclear-powered submarine arrived in the South Korean port city of Busan, and on Wednesday, Washington flew its long-range bombers in drills with Seoul and Tokyo.

On Wednesday, he instructed the country's military to expedite "war preparations" in response to "extreme confrontation moves" by Washington and its allies in the Korean Peninsula.

Kim's warning followed a meeting between South Korea and the United States last week in Washington, where they discussed nuclear deterrence in the event of conflict with the DPRK.

Addressing his military's missile bureau, the DPRK leader requested "not to hesitate (launching) even a nuclear attack when the enemy provokes it with nukes," Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday.

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