Kim Jong Un has declared South Korea his country’s ‘primary enemy’ and warned that he will not hesitate to annihilate it, state media reported on Wednesday.
The dictator, who turned 40 on Monday, was also quoted as declaring he had ‘no intention of avoiding war’ with his country’s ancient rival to the south while touring a large weapons facility.
Images released today showed Kim standing in front of what observers described as short-range ballistic missile launchers, wearing a fulllength black leather jacket and holding a cigarette.The missiles are reportedly nuclear-capable.
The news follows recent livefire exercises by Pyongyang’s military near the disputed maritime boundary, which prompted counter-drills and evacuation orders for residents of two South Korean border islands.
‘The historic time has come at last when we should define as a state most hostile toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea the entity called the Republic of Korea,’ Kim was reported as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency.
Kim, urging factory workers to modernise and ‘produce more weapons’, said he had ‘no intention of avoiding a war’ and warned he would have no hesitation in ‘annihilating’ South Korea, KCNA added.’
Source | Vanguard
