8, 2021 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central
News Agency ( KCNA) on January 9, 2021 shows North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un speaking during the fourth day of 8th Congress of the
Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang. STR / KCNA VIA KNS /
AFP
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the United
States is his nuclear-armed nation’s “biggest enemy”, state media
reported Saturday.
The declaration comes less than two weeks before the
inauguration of Joe Biden as US president, and after a tumultuous
relationship between Kim and the outgoing Donald Trump.
Kim and Trump first engaged in a war of words and mutual
threats, before an extraordinary diplomatic bromance that featured
headline-grabbing summits and declarations of love by the US
president.
But no substantive progress was made, with the process
deadlocked after a meeting in Hanoi broke up over sanctions relief
and what the North would be willing to give up in
return.
Pyongyang “should focus and be developed on subverting the US,
the biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy”, Kim
told the five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers’ Party
of Korea, the official KCNA news agency reported.
“No matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy
against North Korea will never change,” it quoted
him as saying, without mentioning Biden by name.
Pyongyang has poured vast amounts of resources into developing
its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, which it says it needs
to defend itself against a possible US invasion.
The programmes have made rapid progress under Kim, including by
far its most powerful nuclear blast to date and missiles capable of
reaching the whole US, at a cost of increasingly stringent
international sanctions.
The North has completed plans for a nuclear-powered
submarine, Kim said — something that would change the strategic
balance.
“New planning research for a nuclear-powered submarine has been
completed and is to enter the final examination process,” Kim told
the congress.
The country should “further advance nuclear technology” and
develop small-sized, lightweight nuclear warheads “to be applied
differently depending on target subjects”, he added.
The comments came in Kim’s nine-hour work report to the meeting,
spread over three days, which KCNA was reporting in detail for the
first time.
AFP
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