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/ )
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
That’s a pretty big policy change
But a pragmatic one. At this point with how tightly they continue to hold to the failing empire, with how they beckon to their calls for shells for Nazis in Ukraine or joining their groups for isolating China, they are a vassal state and the US is simply not going to allow them to re-unify peacefully.
Realistically what the US and the Korean puppets in the south want is an East Germany situation which is as Un points out is absorption and negation of the socialist state by the capitalist one. That’s the only kind of re-unification or even growing closer together they would accept.
It was a valiant and worthy effort to attempt to compromise, to offer peace, to try diplomacy but the south does not have enough people aware of the propaganda to resist it and the leadership are of course all puppets and American loving liberals and the American interest in maintaining a fascist buffer against communism and a staging area that close to China is too great. The old in Korea like the old in Taiwan who might know better and have some experience with the depravity of the Americans and the earnest goodness of the communists are a dying minority.
Now with Russian ties growing stronger and the alliance of resistance against US hegemony which includes China, there are opportunities for the DPRK that do not involve compromise with lying, backstabbing, fascists.
I do wonder how many people in the south are aware of the propaganda, but don’t speak their minds, as they can be arrested for it (you know, the thing they accuse the north of doing).
Probably a lot more are aware than English-speaking people think. Most of the suppression goes untranslated, but there’s quite a lot of it. Would probably be hard as a Korean to avoid mentions of it, but maybe a lot dismiss it like western liberals dismiss communist suppression in the west.
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.
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.
Have you ever researched the DPRK independently? Do you have anything positive you can say about them?
Have you ever researched the DPRK independently?
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.
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?
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
beep beep beepoops, forgot to turn off my nonce radar
“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.
