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The influential sister of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has said the country’s nuclear forces would “annihilate” the South Korean military if it launched a pre-emptive strike against the regime.

Kim Yo-jong, who holds several senior positions in the government and ruling party, said the North had no intention of starting a second Korean war, but would respond if provoked and leave the South’s military in a state of “total destruction and ruin”.

Her comments after South Korea’s defence minister, Suh Wook, publicly discussed Seoul’s ability to “accurately and quickly hit any target in North Korea” with a range of weapons, as international unease grows over the North’s recent resumption of long-range missile tests. In another statement directed toward Suh on Sunday, she called him a “scum-like guy”.

Kim Yo-jong’s warning, while not unusual in its vivid use of language, points to a rise in tensions on the peninsula after the North last month conducted its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile for five years, and amid speculation that the regime could be preparing to carry out a nuclear test later this month.

In her second statement in the space of a few days, Kim said Pyongyang opposed war and did not view South Korea as its principal enemy. “In other words, it means that unless the South Korean army takes military action against our state, it will not be regarded as a target,” she said.

“But if South Korea, for any reason – whether or not it is blinded by misjudgment – opts for such military action as ‘preemptive strike’ touted by (Suh Wook), the situation will change. In that case, South Korea itself will become a target.”

The South, she added, could avoid that fate by abandoning its “fantastic daydream” of launching an attack on the North, a nuclear-armed state whose arsenal could include nuclear-capable short-range weapons targeting South Korean conventional forces and 28,500 US troops based in the country.

North Korea has attempted to increase pressure on Seoul just weeks before South Korea’s new president, the conservative Yoon Suk-yeol, replaces the liberal Moon Jae-in, who has little to show for his attempts at rapprochement with Pyongyang.

Moon met Kim Jong-un three times in 2018 and lobbied hard to set up the North Korean leader’s first summit with Donald Trump in June that year.

A second Trump-Kim summit in 2019 ended in failure due to disagreements on sanctions relief, and the Biden istration has shown little interest in reviving denuclearisation talks unless they result in the verifiable dismantling of the North’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.

Yoon, who will be sworn in 9 May, has vowed to strengthen the South’s defences against North Korean missile attacks but has not ruled out a return to dialogue with Kim.

Yoon’s foreign policy and security advisers are in the US to discuss an early summit with Joe Biden amid concern in Seoul that the US president’s focus is exclusively on the war in Ukraine.

Some analysts believe the North will continue to increase pressure on Washington in the coming months, possibly by test-flying missiles over Japan or resuming nuclear tests. A major provocation could come on or about 15 April, the 110th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder – and Kim Jong-un’s grandfather – Kim IL-sung.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/north-korea-would-annihilate-south-if-provoked-warns-kim-jong-uns-sister

The USA might actually come to the rescue of South Korea should a conflict break out.
Meanwhile, China would definitely place boots on the ground for North Korea, 100%. Mother Russia would aid north Korea to some extents if they're winning, but imagine a scenario where they start losing, Russia would place boots too on the ground.
So in other words, both North and South Korea have powerful backups. But North Korea is nuclear armed, South Korea isn't.
South Korea is playing with fire!

Why can't we live peacefully

No wahala boom!! Africa will receive Una as Refugees

You cannot be dictator if you are not mentally sick, What a family

What I don't understand is why the letters, "US" appears in the article more than even the two aggrieved nations.



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tonididdy:

What I don't understand is why the letters, "US" appears in the article more than even the two aggrieved nations.



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Good observation! Also ever wondered why every major conflict in the world has the US written over it? Wether it is open military confrontation, regime change, social uprising, insurgency/freedom fighting just name it. No matter how far from across the Atlantic it seems to be happening, the little fingers of the US is always somewhere lurking and playing devils advocate. From all major conflict since world war 2, look at the current political turmoil in Pakistan, the heavily divisive elections in Serbia and Hungary, how come the US is always mentioned? This will give you an idea of who is really destabilizing the world covertly or overtly. The world would be safer if the US stops interfering in sovereign affairs of other nations, and stop trying to divide nations into us or against us, stop trying to have sovereign governments subservient to US foreign policy and allow them chart courses that befits them more economically and politically.

I have said it before that is any madness happens, South Korea and Japan are the only ones I am scared for as they are caught in the middle of Russia, China, North Korea and The US

Mynd44:
I have said it before that is any madness happens, South Korea and Japan are the only ones I am scared for as they are caught in the middle of Russia, China, North Korea and The US

Mugu Marathon continues...

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Warmongers.

Low budget Russia...

Even your papa/role model wey be Russia flopped, who come be you where South Korea dey, na once US go pound on una, people wey dey find means to do that before.

The madness runs in their family blood.

Really

People just eat, sleep, drink and think vawulence. Na wa for you and your brother

The foolishness of that North korean leader is second to none. Your people are in hunger and the country is dire need of humanitarian assistance but all you can do with the little resources in your disposal is to build weapon of mass destruction.

I read about North country and it's funny how thier people survive.

I know for sure North Korea poses little threat to the world and if by mistake strike South korea then US and its allies will step in and also Russia and china will take the side of North Korea and if they do WW3 will start and if it start then everybody go rest.

But na people wan annihilate not the country o

Make North Korea stop to dey disturb us.
Abeg fight if una wan fight jare

Bomb that shiihole South Korea from the world map and incinerate vagabond American military base there. Destroy japan too. Communists die hard

Try it and see what the giant of Africa Nigeria will do to you

Since Ukraine made the Russian military a laughingstock, the fat fool in North Korea has stopped testing weapons. Even China has stopped talking nonsense.

Damn. Can all these countries rest? Too many countries at war/bracing up for war. I wonder why we even have arms in this world in the first place. The amount of money the entire world spends on arms and fighting wars, is enough to make earth paradise for every single inhabitant. Will there ever be peace on planet earth?

North Korea self wan invade south Korea. 2022 go busy gaan

Hehehe!

Hh