SEOUL: North Korean state media revealed a white paper on Sunday (Nov 3) accusing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol of exposing his nation to the hazard of nuclear battle by way of his coverage in direction of the North.
The doc, compiled by North Korea’s Institute of Enemy State Studies and launched by state information company KCNA, criticized Yoon’s “reckless remarks” concerning the battle, abandoning components of an inter-Korean settlement, participating in planning nuclear battle with the United States and searching for nearer ties with Japan and NATO.
“Its more and more worsening navy strikes have had the paradoxical penalties of (North Korea’s) drive to build up nuclear weapons at an exponential price and to additional develop its nuclear strike functionality,” the doc reads.
Yoon, a conservative, has taken a tough line on North Korea, which has continued to develop its arsenal of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
His administration accuses North Korea of elevating tensions with weapons checks and offering navy support and troops to help Russia’s battle in Ukraine.
Pyongyang has taken steps to sever inter-Korean ties, redefining the South as a separate and hostile enemy state, since Kim Jong Un declared it the “major enemy” earlier this 12 months and mentioned unification was not potential.
North Korea blew up sections of inter-Korean roads and rail strains on its aspect of the closely fortified border between the 2 Koreas final month, and satellite tv for pc pictures present it has since constructed massive trenches throughout earlier crossings.
